Work & commute · Mounds

Work & commute in Mounds, IL

Most working residents leave Mounds for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Anna (9%), Cape Girardeau (5%) and Marion (4%). Half commute less than 25 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

7 of 206 working residents

Typical commute

25 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 199 Mounds residents head out of town to work, 7 work right here, and 116 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Mounds.

199live here, work elsewhere

7live and work here

116work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Mounds goes to work

Anna24 mi away

9%18

Cape Girardeau, MO23.7 mi away

5%10

Marion45.1 mi away

4%9

Mounds (in town)right here

3%7

Mound City3 mi away

3%6

Ullin11.5 mi away

3%6

Cairo7.6 mi away

3%6

Carbondale41.9 mi away

2%4

Springfield186.4 mi away

2%4

Charleston, MO15.5 mi away

2%4

Everywhere elseother towns and states

64%132

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

How far

How far Mounds commutes

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

19%

31%

21%

29%

19%Under 10 mi

31%10–24 mi

21%25–50 mi

29%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Mounds is a commuter town

0.60jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Mounds are

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

Jobs based in Mounds

123 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)41%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)42%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month35%

Over $3,333 a month53%

Jobs Mounds residents hold

206 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)14%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)70%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month37%

Over $3,333 a month46%

+12%

Jobs based in Mounds, 2013 → 2023: 110 → 123. 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.