Work & commute · Guilford

Work & commute in Guilford, IL

Most working residents leave Guilford for work: only 15% work in town. The top destinations are Galena (18%), The Galena Territory (14%) and Dubuque (10%). Half commute less than 20 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

15%

74 of 502 working residents

Typical commute

20 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

26 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

36%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 428 Guilford residents head out of town to work, 74 work right here, and 404 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Guilford.

428live here, work elsewhere

74live and work here

404work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Guilford goes to work

Galena7.8 mi away

18%88

The Galena Territory3.2 mi away

14%70

Dubuque, IA22.7 mi away

10%51

Elizabeth7.7 mi away

4%20

Elizabeth7.3 mi away

3%14

Davenport, IA62.1 mi away

2%11

Freeport34 mi away

2%9

Chicago138.7 mi away

2%9

Rockford62.9 mi away

2%9

Scales Mound3.9 mi away

1%7

Everywhere elseother towns and states

43%214

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

How far

How far Guilford commutes

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

43%

17%

33%

43%Under 10 mi

17%10–24 mi

7%25–50 mi

33%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Guilford is balanced between jobs and homes

0.95jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.95 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Guilford are

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

Jobs based in Guilford

478 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)3%

Trade, transport & utilities2%

Services (health, schools, offices…)95%

$1,250 a month or less28%

$1,251–$3,333 a month41%

Over $3,333 a month31%

Jobs Guilford residents hold

502 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)16%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)65%

$1,250 a month or less20%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month53%

+203%

Jobs based in Guilford, 2013 → 2023: 158 → 478. 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.