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Work & commute · Okaw

Work & commute in Okaw, IL

Most working residents leave Okaw for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Decatur (18%), Shelbyville (9%) and Pana (5%). Half commute less than 26 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times
Work in town
1%
3 of 392 working residents
Typical commute
26 mi
Half commute less than this, straight-line
Average commute time
22 min
One way, from the Census survey
Work from home
9%
of workers, from the Census survey
Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 389 Okaw residents head out of town to work, 3 work right here, and 55 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Okaw.

389live here, work elsewhere
3live and work here
55work here, live elsewhere
Leave for workStayCome in
The map

Where Okaw goes to work

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1
Decatur27.4 mi away
18%71
2
Shelbyville5.9 mi away
9%34
3
Pana19.4 mi away
5%18
4
Moweaqua17.5 mi away
4%17
5
Mattoon20.5 mi away
4%17
6
Assumption16.2 mi away
3%13
7
Effingham27.3 mi away
3%13
8
Springfield52.2 mi away
3%13
9
Bloomington69.4 mi away
3%10
10
Sullivan10.6 mi away
2%9
Everywhere elseother towns and states
45%177

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

How far

How far Okaw commutes

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

16%Under 10 mi
30%10–24 mi
29%25–50 mi
25%Over 50 mi
Job hub or commuter town?

Okaw is a commuter town

0.15jobs per working resident
A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Okaw are

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

Jobs based in Okaw

58 jobs
Goods (factories, building, farms)10%
Trade, transport & utilities3%
Services (health, schools, offices…)86%
$1,250 a month or less45%
$1,251–$3,333 a month24%
Over $3,333 a month31%

Jobs Okaw residents hold

392 working residents
Goods (factories, building, farms)24%
Trade, transport & utilities20%
Services (health, schools, offices…)56%
$1,250 a month or less16%
$1,251–$3,333 a month23%
Over $3,333 a month60%
−73%

Jobs based in Okaw, 2013 → 2023: 211 → 58. 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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