Work & commute · O'Fallon

Work & commute in O'Fallon, IL

Most working residents leave O'Fallon for work: only 12% work in town. The top destinations are O'Fallon (14%), St. Louis (11%) and Belleville (9%). Half commute less than 16 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

12%

1,317 of 11,126 working residents

Typical commute

16 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

26 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

20%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 9,809 O'Fallon residents head out of town to work, 1,317 work right here, and 5,969 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in O'Fallon.

9,809live here, work elsewhere

1,317live and work here

5,969work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where O'Fallon goes to work

O'Fallon2.9 mi away

14%1,560

St. Louis, MO20.6 mi away

11%1,277

Belleville9.6 mi away

9%993

Fairview Heights7.7 mi away

4%417

Edwardsville13.9 mi away

3%307

Shiloh5.1 mi away

3%300

Chicago250.6 mi away

2%261

Swansea7.9 mi away

2%183

Collinsville8.9 mi away

2%172

Springfield82.2 mi away

1%154

Everywhere elseother towns and states

49%5,502

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

How far

How far O'Fallon commutes

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

40%

31%

13%

16%

40%Under 10 mi

31%10–24 mi

13%25–50 mi

16%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

O'Fallon is a commuter town

0.65jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in O'Fallon are

7,286 jobs are based in O'Fallon. Here is what they are, next to the jobs O'Fallon’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in O'Fallon

7,286 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)8%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)69%

$1,250 a month or less20%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month49%

Jobs O'Fallon residents hold

11,126 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)11%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)70%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month23%

Over $3,333 a month62%

+13%

Jobs based in O'Fallon, 2013 → 2023: 6,475 → 7,286. 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.