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Work & commute in New Athens, IL

Most working residents leave New Athens for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Belleville (13%), St. Louis (9%) and Freeburg (6%). Half commute less than 20 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times
Work in town
4%
38 of 891 working residents
Typical commute
20 mi
Half commute less than this, straight-line
Average commute time
32 min
One way, from the Census survey
Work from home
3%
of workers, from the Census survey
Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 853 New Athens residents head out of town to work, 38 work right here, and 205 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in New Athens.

853live here, work elsewhere
38live and work here
205work here, live elsewhere
Leave for workStayCome in
The map

Where New Athens goes to work

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1
Belleville15 mi away
13%113
2
St. Louis, MO29.7 mi away
9%76
3
Freeburg8.6 mi away
6%57
4
New Athens (in town)right here
4%38
5
Red Bud10.4 mi away
3%28
6
Chicago269.2 mi away
2%21
7
O'Fallon19.6 mi away
2%20
8
Swansea17.2 mi away
2%16
9
Waterloo15.2 mi away
2%16
10
Edwardsville33.2 mi away
2%16
Everywhere elseother towns and states
55%490

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

How far

How far New Athens commutes

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

18%Under 10 mi
37%10–24 mi
30%25–50 mi
15%Over 50 mi
Job hub or commuter town?

New Athens is a commuter town

0.27jobs per working resident
A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in New Athens are

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

Jobs based in New Athens

243 jobs
Goods (factories, building, farms)16%
Trade, transport & utilities19%
Services (health, schools, offices…)65%
$1,250 a month or less21%
$1,251–$3,333 a month37%
Over $3,333 a month43%

Jobs New Athens residents hold

891 working residents
Goods (factories, building, farms)19%
Trade, transport & utilities20%
Services (health, schools, offices…)61%
$1,250 a month or less14%
$1,251–$3,333 a month22%
Over $3,333 a month64%
−52%

Jobs based in New Athens, 2013 → 2023: 506 → 243. 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.

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