Work & commute · La Prairie

Work & commute in La Prairie, IL

Most working residents leave La Prairie for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Peoria (17%), Lacon (5%) and Limestone (4%). Half commute less than 23 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

3 of 130 working residents

Typical commute

23 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

27 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 127 La Prairie residents head out of town to work, 3 work right here, and 28 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in La Prairie.

127live here, work elsewhere

3live and work here

28work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where La Prairie goes to work

Peoria18.4 mi away

17%22

Lacon8.8 mi away

5%6

Limestone24.7 mi away

4%5

Chillicothe7.9 mi away

3%4

Henry12.2 mi away

3%4

Mossville13.7 mi away

3%4

Henry13.4 mi away

2%3

Peoria Heights18.6 mi away

2%3

Oak Brook101.4 mi away

2%3

Princeton25.9 mi away

2%3

Everywhere elseother towns and states

56%73

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

How far

How far La Prairie commutes

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

12%

47%

18%

23%

12%Under 10 mi

47%10–24 mi

18%25–50 mi

23%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

La Prairie is a commuter town

0.24jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in La Prairie are

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

Jobs based in La Prairie

31 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)35%

Trade, transport & utilities48%

Services (health, schools, offices…)16%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month55%

Jobs La Prairie residents hold

130 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)24%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)55%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month60%

+35%

Jobs based in La Prairie, 2013 → 2023: 23 → 31. 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.