Work & commute · Green Oaks

Work & commute in Green Oaks, IL

Most working residents leave Green Oaks for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Chicago (15%), Libertyville (8%) and Libertyville (6%). Half commute less than 12 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

28 of 1,847 working residents

Typical commute

12 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

31 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

28%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,819 Green Oaks residents head out of town to work, 28 work right here, and 1,569 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Green Oaks.

1,819live here, work elsewhere

28live and work here

1,569work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Green Oaks goes to work

Chicago34 mi away

15%272

Libertyville2.1 mi away

8%150

Libertyville3 mi away

6%115

North Chicago2.9 mi away

4%76

Waukegan5.2 mi away

4%73

Vernon Hills5.2 mi away

4%65

Lake Forest5.2 mi away

3%62

Mundelein5.7 mi away

2%38

Northbrook12.5 mi away

2%36

Gurnee5 mi away

2%36

Everywhere elseother towns and states

50%924

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

How far

How far Green Oaks commutes

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

46%

27%

22%

46%Under 10 mi

27%10–24 mi

22%25–50 mi

5%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Green Oaks is balanced between jobs and homes

0.86jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.86 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Green Oaks are

1,597 jobs are based in Green Oaks. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Green Oaks’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Green Oaks

1,597 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)50%

Trade, transport & utilities8%

Services (health, schools, offices…)42%

$1,250 a month or less7%

$1,251–$3,333 a month20%

Over $3,333 a month73%

Jobs Green Oaks residents hold

1,847 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)22%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)60%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month16%

Over $3,333 a month73%

−19%

Jobs based in Green Oaks, 2013 → 2023: 1,983 → 1,597. 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.