Work & commute · Lyons

Work & commute in Lyons, IL

Most working residents leave Lyons for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Chicago (28%), Cicero (3%) and Hodgkins (2%). Half commute less than 10 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

173 of 4,473 working residents

Typical commute

10 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

28 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

19%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 4,300 Lyons residents head out of town to work, 173 work right here, and 2,667 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Lyons.

4,300live here, work elsewhere

173live and work here

2,667work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Lyons goes to work

Chicago7.1 mi away

28%1,272

Lyons (in town)right here

4%173

Cicero3.8 mi away

3%125

Hodgkins3.9 mi away

2%86

Oak Brook7.1 mi away

2%81

Berwyn2.6 mi away

2%78

Maywood4.9 mi away

2%77

Bedford Park3.9 mi away

2%73

Brookfield1.7 mi away

1%60

Bolingbrook17.2 mi away

1%60

Everywhere elseother towns and states

53%2,388

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

How far

How far Lyons commutes

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

49%

41%

49%Under 10 mi

41%10–24 mi

5%25–50 mi

4%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Lyons is a commuter town

0.63jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Lyons are

2,840 jobs are based in Lyons. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Lyons’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Lyons

2,840 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)15%

Trade, transport & utilities24%

Services (health, schools, offices…)61%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month37%

Over $3,333 a month47%

Jobs Lyons residents hold

4,473 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)16%

Trade, transport & utilities26%

Services (health, schools, offices…)58%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month61%

+3%

Jobs based in Lyons, 2013 → 2023: 2,750 → 2,840. 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.