Work & commute · Minooka

Work & commute in Minooka, IL

Most working residents leave Minooka for work: only 7% work in town. The top destinations are Joliet (11%), Chicago (10%) and Channahon (4%). Half commute less than 22 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

466 of 6,560 working residents

Typical commute

22 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

32 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

10%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 6,094 Minooka residents head out of town to work, 466 work right here, and 4,650 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Minooka.

6,094live here, work elsewhere

466live and work here

4,650work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Minooka goes to work

Joliet8.1 mi away

11%709

Chicago40.6 mi away

10%684

Minooka (in town)right here

7%466

Channahon2.1 mi away

4%274

Morris9 mi away

4%234

Naperville21.5 mi away

3%213

Bolingbrook18.5 mi away

3%178

Plainfield12 mi away

2%161

Aurora21.6 mi away

2%144

New Lenox16.4 mi away

2%125

Everywhere elseother towns and states

51%3,372

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

How far

How far Minooka commutes

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

26%

29%

37%

26%Under 10 mi

29%10–24 mi

37%25–50 mi

8%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Minooka is balanced between jobs and homes

0.78jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.78 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Minooka are

5,116 jobs are based in Minooka. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Minooka’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Minooka

5,116 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)11%

Trade, transport & utilities48%

Services (health, schools, offices…)41%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month23%

Over $3,333 a month64%

Jobs Minooka residents hold

6,560 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)16%

Trade, transport & utilities27%

Services (health, schools, offices…)57%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month22%

Over $3,333 a month64%

+70%

Jobs based in Minooka, 2013 → 2023: 3,008 → 5,116. 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.