Work & commute · Malta

Work & commute in Malta, IL

Most working residents leave Malta for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are DeKalb (18%), Sycamore (11%) and Rockford (6%). Half commute less than 25 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

27 of 667 working residents

Typical commute

25 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

28 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

14%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 640 Malta residents head out of town to work, 27 work right here, and 387 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Malta.

640live here, work elsewhere

27live and work here

387work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Malta goes to work

DeKalb7 mi away

18%121

Sycamore11.4 mi away

11%72

Rockford24.4 mi away

6%42

Chicago62 mi away

4%27

Malta (in town)right here

3%20

Rochelle9.3 mi away

2%15

Elgin29.5 mi away

2%13

Batavia30 mi away

2%12

Aurora32.7 mi away

2%12

Geneva28.6 mi away

2%11

Everywhere elseother towns and states

48%322

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

How far

How far Malta commutes

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

35%

15%

32%

18%

35%Under 10 mi

15%10–24 mi

32%25–50 mi

18%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Malta is a commuter town

0.62jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Malta are

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

Jobs based in Malta

414 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)9%

Trade, transport & utilities11%

Services (health, schools, offices…)80%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month24%

Over $3,333 a month61%

Jobs Malta residents hold

667 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)19%

Trade, transport & utilities24%

Services (health, schools, offices…)57%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month58%

−33%

Jobs based in Malta, 2013 → 2023: 618 → 414. 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.