Work & commute · Mount Olive

Work & commute in Mount Olive, IL

Most working residents leave Mount Olive for work: only 7% work in town. The top destinations are Litchfield (8%), Springfield (8%) and St. Louis (5%). Half commute less than 27 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

67 of 952 working residents

Typical commute

27 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

26 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 885 Mount Olive residents head out of town to work, 67 work right here, and 221 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Mount Olive.

885live here, work elsewhere

67live and work here

221work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Mount Olive goes to work

Litchfield7.9 mi away

8%75

Springfield49.8 mi away

8%73

Mount Olive (in town)right here

7%67

St. Louis, MO41 mi away

5%43

Staunton5.4 mi away

4%41

Staunton3.9 mi away

4%37

Edwardsville24 mi away

3%33

Carlinville16.2 mi away

3%32

Alton25.5 mi away

3%29

Granite City31.9 mi away

3%28

Everywhere elseother towns and states

52%494

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

How far

How far Mount Olive commutes

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

29%

17%

32%

22%

29%Under 10 mi

17%10–24 mi

32%25–50 mi

22%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Mount Olive is a commuter town

0.30jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Mount Olive are

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

Jobs based in Mount Olive

288 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)20%

Trade, transport & utilities31%

Services (health, schools, offices…)49%

$1,250 a month or less20%

$1,251–$3,333 a month35%

Over $3,333 a month45%

Jobs Mount Olive residents hold

952 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)17%

Trade, transport & utilities24%

Services (health, schools, offices…)58%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month55%

+1%

Jobs based in Mount Olive, 2013 → 2023: 286 → 288. 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.