Work & commute · Palos Hills

Work & commute in Palos Hills, IL

Most working residents leave Palos Hills for work: only 5% work in town. The top destinations are Chicago (26%), Oak Lawn (2%) and Hickory Hills (2%). Half commute less than 13 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

358 of 7,602 working residents

Typical commute

13 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

35 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

12%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 7,244 Palos Hills residents head out of town to work, 358 work right here, and 3,991 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Palos Hills.

7,244live here, work elsewhere

358live and work here

3,991work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Palos Hills goes to work

Chicago11.9 mi away

26%1,978

Palos Hills (in town)right here

5%358

Oak Lawn3.9 mi away

2%185

Hickory Hills1.7 mi away

2%180

Bridgeview2.9 mi away

2%175

Bedford Park5.4 mi away

2%148

Orland Park6.6 mi away

2%145

Downers Grove12 mi away

2%138

Oak Brook11.5 mi away

2%121

Bolingbrook14.6 mi away

1%112

Everywhere elseother towns and states

53%4,062

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

How far

How far Palos Hills commutes

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

36%

52%

36%Under 10 mi

52%10–24 mi

8%25–50 mi

4%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Palos Hills is a commuter town

0.57jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Palos Hills are

4,349 jobs are based in Palos Hills. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Palos Hills’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Palos Hills

4,349 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)8%

Trade, transport & utilities10%

Services (health, schools, offices…)82%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month36%

Over $3,333 a month48%

Jobs Palos Hills residents hold

7,602 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)13%

Trade, transport & utilities25%

Services (health, schools, offices…)62%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month24%

Over $3,333 a month63%

−6%

Jobs based in Palos Hills, 2013 → 2023: 4,624 → 4,349. 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.