Work & commute · Green Garden

Work & commute in Green Garden, IL

Most working residents leave Green Garden for work: only 5% work in town. The top destinations are Chicago (9%), Frankfort (5%) and Joliet (4%). Half commute less than 19 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

91 of 1,986 working residents

Typical commute

19 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

33 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

13%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,895 Green Garden residents head out of town to work, 91 work right here, and 366 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Green Garden.

1,895live here, work elsewhere

91live and work here

366work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Green Garden goes to work

Chicago29.6 mi away

9%183

Frankfort5.7 mi away

5%107

Green Garden (in town)right here

4%88

Joliet16.9 mi away

4%86

Tinley Park10.1 mi away

4%80

Mokena7.3 mi away

4%72

New Lenox8.7 mi away

3%54

Orland Park12.6 mi away

3%54

Downers Grove27 mi away

2%38

Kankakee22.5 mi away

1%29

Everywhere elseother towns and states

60%1,195

Lines run between town centers; a thicker line means more commuters. The top 10 towns each way.

How far

How far Green Garden commutes

Straight-line distance from home to work, for every working resident. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

25%

38%

29%

25%Under 10 mi

38%10–24 mi

29%25–50 mi

8%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Green Garden is a commuter town

0.23jobs per working resident

A commuter town

0.23 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Green Garden are

457 jobs are based in Green Garden. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Green Garden’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Green Garden

457 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)47%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)36%

$1,250 a month or less21%

$1,251–$3,333 a month25%

Over $3,333 a month55%

Jobs Green Garden residents hold

1,986 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)20%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)57%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month22%

Over $3,333 a month65%

+39%

Jobs based in Green Garden, 2013 → 2023: 328 → 457. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

About these numbers

How to read this page

Every worker, home to workThe Census links each worker’s home block to their main job’s block, for jobs covered by unemployment insurance. That’s most jobs, but not the self-employed.

Where the employer saysA job counts where the employer reports it. Some big employers report one address for many sites, which can make a few commutes look longer than they are.

Two surveysFlows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time and working from home: the Census American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs; American Community Survey 5-year estimates.