Work & commute · Mount Clare

Work & commute in Mount Clare, IL

Most working residents leave Mount Clare for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Edwardsville (7%), Gillespie (5%) and Litchfield (5%). Half commute less than 26 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

1 of 126 working residents

Typical commute

26 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

36 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 125 Mount Clare residents head out of town to work, 1 work right here, and 132 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Mount Clare.

125live here, work elsewhere

1live and work here

132work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Mount Clare goes to work

Edwardsville22.8 mi away

7%9

Gillespie2.1 mi away

5%6

Litchfield10.5 mi away

5%6

Staunton6.3 mi away

3%4

Troy25.8 mi away

3%4

Fairview Heights35.9 mi away

3%4

Alton21.7 mi away

3%4

Granite City29.9 mi away

3%4

Carlinville12.7 mi away

2%3

East Alton20.8 mi away

2%3

Everywhere elseother towns and states

63%79

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

How far

How far Mount Clare commutes

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

21%

24%

40%

15%

21%Under 10 mi

24%10–24 mi

40%25–50 mi

15%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Mount Clare is balanced between jobs and homes

1.06jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.06 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Mount Clare are

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

Jobs based in Mount Clare

133 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)0%

Trade, transport & utilities36%

Services (health, schools, offices…)64%

$1,250 a month or less31%

$1,251–$3,333 a month43%

Over $3,333 a month26%

Jobs Mount Clare residents hold

126 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)20%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)63%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month19%

Over $3,333 a month63%

+41%

Jobs based in Mount Clare, 2013 → 2023: 94 → 133. 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.