Work & commute · Mount Morris

Work & commute in Mount Morris, IL

Most working residents leave Mount Morris for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Rockford (11%), Oregon (10%) and Dixon (6%). Half commute less than 22 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

47 of 1,348 working residents

Typical commute

22 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

21 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 1,301 Mount Morris residents head out of town to work, 47 work right here, and 199 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Mount Morris.

1,301live here, work elsewhere

47live and work here

199work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Mount Morris goes to work

Rockford23.8 mi away

11%149

Oregon7.2 mi away

10%141

Dixon15.8 mi away

6%79

Oregon-Nashua8.7 mi away

5%68

Chicago92.2 mi away

5%67

Freeport17.7 mi away

3%47

Mount Morris1.9 mi away

3%42

Sterling22.6 mi away

3%36

Rockvale5.9 mi away

3%35

Byron10.3 mi away

2%33

Everywhere elseother towns and states

48%651

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

How far

How far Mount Morris commutes

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

25%

33%

13%

28%

25%Under 10 mi

33%10–24 mi

13%25–50 mi

28%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Mount Morris is a commuter town

0.18jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Mount Morris are

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

Jobs based in Mount Morris

246 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)19%

Trade, transport & utilities40%

Services (health, schools, offices…)41%

$1,250 a month or less31%

$1,251–$3,333 a month38%

Over $3,333 a month30%

Jobs Mount Morris residents hold

1,348 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)23%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)55%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month57%

−37%

Jobs based in Mount Morris, 2013 → 2023: 389 → 246. 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.