Work & commute · Phillips

Work & commute in Phillips, IL

Most working residents leave Phillips for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Carmi (20%), Evansville (10%) and Albion (9%). Half commute less than 20 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

8 of 457 working residents

Typical commute

20 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

31 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 449 Phillips residents head out of town to work, 8 work right here, and 116 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Phillips.

449live here, work elsewhere

8live and work here

116work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Phillips goes to work

Carmi8.9 mi away

20%93

Evansville, IN30.6 mi away

10%46

Albion14.2 mi away

9%40

Grayville6.4 mi away

5%25

Patoka, IN27.8 mi away

4%18

Black, IN16.7 mi away

2%10

Hawthorne5.8 mi away

2%9

Norris City20.2 mi away

2%7

McLeansboro27.3 mi away

1%6

Fairfield22.8 mi away

1%6

Everywhere elseother towns and states

43%197

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

How far

How far Phillips commutes

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

29%

25%

22%

29%Under 10 mi

25%10–24 mi

25%25–50 mi

22%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Phillips is a commuter town

0.27jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Phillips are

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

Jobs based in Phillips

124 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)69%

Trade, transport & utilities15%

Services (health, schools, offices…)16%

$1,250 a month or less8%

$1,251–$3,333 a month24%

Over $3,333 a month68%

Jobs Phillips residents hold

457 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)33%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)45%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month56%

−44%

Jobs based in Phillips, 2013 → 2023: 220 → 124. 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.