Work & commute · O'Fallon

Work & commute in O'Fallon, IL

Most working residents leave O'Fallon for work: only 13% work in town. The top destinations are St. Louis (12%), Belleville (9%) and Fairview Heights (4%). Half commute less than 15 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

13%

1,835 of 13,641 working residents

Typical commute

15 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

25 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 11,806 O'Fallon residents head out of town to work, 1,835 work right here, and 9,647 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in O'Fallon.

11,806live here, work elsewhere

1,835live and work here

9,647work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where O'Fallon goes to work

O'Fallon (in town)right here

13%1,835

St. Louis, MO17.9 mi away

12%1,690

Belleville7.1 mi away

9%1,260

Fairview Heights4.9 mi away

4%604

Edwardsville13.8 mi away

3%401

Shiloh3.3 mi away

3%352

Chicago252.7 mi away

2%306

Collinsville7.3 mi away

2%258

Swansea5.1 mi away

2%251

East St. Louis11.7 mi away

2%219

Everywhere elseother towns and states

47%6,465

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%

32%

12%

16%

40%Under 10 mi

32%10–24 mi

12%25–50 mi

16%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

O'Fallon is balanced between jobs and homes

0.84jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.84 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in O'Fallon are

11,482 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

11,482 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)5%

Trade, transport & utilities24%

Services (health, schools, offices…)71%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month33%

Over $3,333 a month49%

Jobs O'Fallon residents hold

13,641 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%

+22%

Jobs based in O'Fallon, 2013 → 2023: 9,446 → 11,482. 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.