Work & commute · Prospect Heights

Work & commute in Prospect Heights, IL

Most working residents leave Prospect Heights for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Chicago (17%), Wheeling (5%) and Arlington Heights (5%). Half commute less than 10 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

219 of 6,904 working residents

Typical commute

10 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

26 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

19%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 6,685 Prospect Heights residents head out of town to work, 219 work right here, and 6,448 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Prospect Heights.

6,685live here, work elsewhere

219live and work here

6,448work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Prospect Heights goes to work

Chicago22.3 mi away

17%1,198

Wheeling1.7 mi away

5%375

Arlington Heights2.7 mi away

5%320

Glenview5.4 mi away

4%247

Northbrook5.1 mi away

3%230

Schaumburg9.5 mi away

3%228

Prospect Heights (in town)right here

3%219

Mount Prospect2.8 mi away

3%201

Des Plaines5 mi away

2%172

Elk Grove Village7.5 mi away

2%164

Everywhere elseother towns and states

51%3,550

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

How far

How far Prospect Heights commutes

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

52%

39%

52%Under 10 mi

39%10–24 mi

5%25–50 mi

3%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Prospect Heights is balanced between jobs and homes

0.97jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.97 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Prospect Heights are

6,667 jobs are based in Prospect Heights. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Prospect Heights’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Prospect Heights

6,667 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)10%

Trade, transport & utilities12%

Services (health, schools, offices…)78%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month46%

Over $3,333 a month39%

Jobs Prospect Heights residents hold

6,904 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)15%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)63%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month24%

Over $3,333 a month64%

+43%

Jobs based in Prospect Heights, 2013 → 2023: 4,654 → 6,667. 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.