Work & commute · Pontoon Beach

Work & commute in Pontoon Beach, IL

Most working residents leave Pontoon Beach for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Granite City (12%), St. Louis (10%) and Edwardsville (9%). Half commute less than 11 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

92 of 2,443 working residents

Typical commute

11 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

23 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 2,351 Pontoon Beach residents head out of town to work, 92 work right here, and 3,128 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Pontoon Beach.

2,351live here, work elsewhere

92live and work here

3,128work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Pontoon Beach goes to work

Granite City4.1 mi away

12%300

St. Louis, MO12 mi away

10%252

Edwardsville5.9 mi away

9%211

Collinsville3.7 mi away

5%110

Pontoon Beach (in town)right here

4%92

Alton13.8 mi away

2%54

Belleville14.5 mi away

2%54

Fairview Heights9 mi away

2%48

Madison3.7 mi away

2%46

O'Fallon11.1 mi away

2%46

Everywhere elseother towns and states

50%1,230

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

How far

How far Pontoon Beach commutes

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

44%

37%

15%

44%Under 10 mi

37%10–24 mi

4%25–50 mi

15%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Pontoon Beach is balanced between jobs and homes

1.32jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.32 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Pontoon Beach are

3,220 jobs are based in Pontoon Beach. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Pontoon Beach’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Pontoon Beach

3,220 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)17%

Trade, transport & utilities52%

Services (health, schools, offices…)32%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month22%

Over $3,333 a month67%

Jobs Pontoon Beach residents hold

2,443 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)16%

Trade, transport & utilities27%

Services (health, schools, offices…)57%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month33%

Over $3,333 a month53%

+47%

Jobs based in Pontoon Beach, 2013 → 2023: 2,186 → 3,220. 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.