Work & commute · La Grange Park

Work & commute in La Grange Park, IL

Most working residents leave La Grange Park for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Chicago (32%), La Grange (3%) and Oak Brook (2%). Half commute less than 12 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

266 of 6,220 working residents

Typical commute

12 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

29 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

24%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 5,954 La Grange Park residents head out of town to work, 266 work right here, and 2,139 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in La Grange Park.

5,954live here, work elsewhere

266live and work here

2,139work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where La Grange Park goes to work

Chicago9.7 mi away

32%2,020

La Grange Park (in town)right here

4%266

La Grange1.6 mi away

3%189

Oak Brook4.2 mi away

2%147

Maywood3.7 mi away

2%122

Downers Grove8.1 mi away

2%122

Cicero5.9 mi away

1%81

Lombard7.9 mi away

1%81

Elmhurst5.9 mi away

1%80

Schaumburg17.5 mi away

1%80

Everywhere elseother towns and states

49%3,032

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

How far

How far La Grange Park commutes

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

43%

50%

43%Under 10 mi

50%10–24 mi

3%25–50 mi

4%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

La Grange Park is a commuter town

0.39jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in La Grange Park are

2,405 jobs are based in La Grange Park. Here is what they are, next to the jobs La Grange Park’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in La Grange Park

2,405 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)7%

Trade, transport & utilities14%

Services (health, schools, offices…)78%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month53%

Jobs La Grange Park residents hold

6,220 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)10%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)71%

$1,250 a month or less10%

$1,251–$3,333 a month18%

Over $3,333 a month72%

−4%

Jobs based in La Grange Park, 2013 → 2023: 2,499 → 2,405. 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.