Work & commute · Okawville

Work & commute in Okawville, IL

Most working residents leave Okawville for work: only 14% work in town. The top destinations are Nashville (13%), Belleville (6%) and St. Louis (5%). Half commute less than 22 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

14%

89 of 642 working residents

Typical commute

22 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

25 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

10%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 553 Okawville residents head out of town to work, 89 work right here, and 673 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Okawville.

553live here, work elsewhere

89live and work here

673work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Okawville goes to work

Okawville (in town)right here

14%89

Nashville10.5 mi away

13%85

Belleville24.6 mi away

6%38

St. Louis, MO40.1 mi away

5%30

Mount Vernon35.1 mi away

3%18

Mascoutah14.8 mi away

2%16

Lively Grove13.2 mi away

2%13

Centralia23.7 mi away

2%11

Granite City37.3 mi away

2%11

Hoyleton15 mi away

2%10

Everywhere elseother towns and states

50%321

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

How far

How far Okawville commutes

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

18%

42%

24%

16%

18%Under 10 mi

42%10–24 mi

24%25–50 mi

16%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Okawville is balanced between jobs and homes

1.19jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.19 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Okawville are

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

Jobs based in Okawville

762 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)26%

Trade, transport & utilities44%

Services (health, schools, offices…)30%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month59%

Jobs Okawville residents hold

642 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)24%

Trade, transport & utilities25%

Services (health, schools, offices…)51%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month25%

Over $3,333 a month61%

+102%

Jobs based in Okawville, 2013 → 2023: 378 → 762. 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.