Work & commute · Prairietown

Work & commute in Prairietown, IL

Most working residents leave Prairietown for work: only 0% work in town. The top destinations are Edwardsville (10%), St. Louis (10%) and Hamel (6%). Half commute less than 19 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

0 of 71 working residents

Typical commute

19 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

— 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 71 Prairietown residents head out of town to work, 0 work right here, and 57 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Prairietown.

71live here, work elsewhere

0live and work here

57work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Prairietown goes to work

Edwardsville12.6 mi away

10%7

St. Louis, MO28.7 mi away

10%7

Hamel6.8 mi away

6%4

Glen Carbon14.7 mi away

6%4

Collinsville20.4 mi away

6%4

Granite City19.7 mi away

4%3

East Alton11.5 mi away

3%2

Roxana12 mi away

3%2

Bethalto7.9 mi away

3%2

Litchfield20 mi away

3%2

Everywhere elseother towns and states

48%34

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

How far

How far Prairietown commutes

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

16%

44%

24%

16%

16%Under 10 mi

44%10–24 mi

24%25–50 mi

16%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Prairietown is balanced between jobs and homes

0.80jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.80 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Prairietown are

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

Jobs based in Prairietown

57 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)0%

Trade, transport & utilities51%

Services (health, schools, offices…)49%

$1,250 a month or less9%

$1,251–$3,333 a month14%

Over $3,333 a month77%

Jobs Prairietown residents hold

71 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)20%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)62%

$1,250 a month or less20%

$1,251–$3,333 a month23%

Over $3,333 a month58%

+280%

Jobs based in Prairietown, 2013 → 2023: 15 → 57. 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.