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Work & commute · Lake Carroll

Work & commute in Lake Carroll, IL

Most working residents leave Lake Carroll for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Freeport (13%), Lanark (10%) and Shannon (9%). Half commute less than 16 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times
Work in town
2%
6 of 291 working residents
Typical commute
16 mi
Half commute less than this, straight-line
Average commute time
30 min
One way, from the Census survey
Work from home
11%
of workers, from the Census survey
Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 285 Lake Carroll residents head out of town to work, 6 work right here, and 124 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Lake Carroll.

285live here, work elsewhere
6live and work here
124work here, live elsewhere
Leave for workStayCome in
The map

Where Lake Carroll goes to work

ShannonMilledgevilleLanarkPoloMount CarrollLenaSavannaSterlingDixonFreeportChicagoSilver CreekFreedomCherry Grove-ShannonJeffersonHarlemLake CarrollFreeportLanarkShannonChicagoSavannaDixonSterlingMount CarrollSilver CreekLake Carroll
1
Freeport14.4 mi away
13%38
2
Lanark5 mi away
10%28
3
Shannon6.5 mi away
9%26
4
Chicago114.3 mi away
4%11
5
Savanna15 mi away
3%9
6
Dixon30.1 mi away
3%9
7
Sterling27 mi away
3%8
8
Mount Carroll7.7 mi away
2%7
9
Lake Carroll (in town)right here
2%6
10
Silver Creek16.1 mi away
2%5
Everywhere elseother towns and states
49%144

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

How far

How far Lake Carroll commutes

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

28%Under 10 mi
28%10–24 mi
16%25–50 mi
27%Over 50 mi
Job hub or commuter town?

Lake Carroll is a commuter town

0.45jobs per working resident
A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Lake Carroll are

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

Jobs based in Lake Carroll

130 jobs
Goods (factories, building, farms)3%
Trade, transport & utilities12%
Services (health, schools, offices…)85%
$1,250 a month or less33%
$1,251–$3,333 a month29%
Over $3,333 a month38%

Jobs Lake Carroll residents hold

291 working residents
Goods (factories, building, farms)19%
Trade, transport & utilities29%
Services (health, schools, offices…)53%
$1,250 a month or less20%
$1,251–$3,333 a month25%
Over $3,333 a month55%
+10%

Jobs based in Lake Carroll, 2013 → 2023: 118 → 130. 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.

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