Work & commute · Lee

Work & commute in Lee, IL

Most working residents leave Lee for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Mount Sterling (45%), Mount Sterling (8%) and Quincy (6%). Half commute less than 6 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

3 of 78 working residents

Typical commute

6 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

17 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

32%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 75 Lee residents head out of town to work, 3 work right here, and 138 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Lee.

75live here, work elsewhere

3live and work here

138work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Lee goes to work

Mount Sterling5.6 mi away

45%35

Mount Sterling6.9 mi away

8%6

Quincy27.2 mi away

6%5

Springfield66 mi away

6%5

Mound Station2.7 mi away

4%3

Versailles12.5 mi away

4%3

Beardstown23.3 mi away

4%3

Jerome64.6 mi away

1%1

Camp Point11.4 mi away

1%1

Glen Ellyn196.6 mi away

1%1

Everywhere elseother towns and states

19%15

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

How far

How far Lee commutes

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

58%

12%

22%

58%Under 10 mi

9%10–24 mi

12%25–50 mi

22%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Lee is a job hub

1.81jobs per working resident

A job hub

1.8 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Lee are

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

Jobs based in Lee

141 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)98%

Trade, transport & utilities0%

Services (health, schools, offices…)2%

$1,250 a month or less8%

$1,251–$3,333 a month20%

Over $3,333 a month72%

Jobs Lee residents hold

78 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)13%

Trade, transport & utilities32%

Services (health, schools, offices…)55%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month58%

−91%

Jobs based in Lee, 2013 → 2023: 1,642 → 141. 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.