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Work & commute · Quarry

Work & commute in Quarry, IL

Most working residents leave Quarry for work: only 11% work in town. The top destinations are Grafton (9%), Jerseyville (9%) and Alton (6%). Half commute less than 20 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times
Work in town
11%
54 of 476 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
20%
of workers, from the Census survey
Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 422 Quarry residents head out of town to work, 54 work right here, and 353 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Quarry.

422live here, work elsewhere
54live and work here
353work here, live elsewhere
Leave for workStayCome in
The map

Where Quarry goes to work

GraftonEast AltonJerseyvilleWood RiverCollinsvilleAltonEdwardsvilleGranite CityGodfreySt. LouisQuarryRosedaleOtter CreekMississippiElsahGraftonJerseyvilleAltonSt. LouisEdwardsvilleWood RiverCollinsvilleElsahEast AltonQuarry
1
Grafton2.8 mi away
9%44
2
Jerseyville11.9 mi away
9%44
3
Alton18.3 mi away
6%30
4
St. Louis, MO27.4 mi away
6%28
5
Edwardsville29.5 mi away
4%17
6
Wood River23 mi away
3%14
7
Collinsville33.1 mi away
2%10
8
Quarry (in town)right here
2%10
9
Elsah8.2 mi away
2%10
10
East Alton21 mi away
2%8
Everywhere elseother towns and states
55%261

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

How far

How far Quarry commutes

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

18%Under 10 mi
44%10–24 mi
25%25–50 mi
13%Over 50 mi
Job hub or commuter town?

Quarry is balanced between jobs and homes

0.86jobs per working resident
Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.86 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Quarry are

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

Jobs based in Quarry

407 jobs
Goods (factories, building, farms)24%
Trade, transport & utilities6%
Services (health, schools, offices…)70%
$1,250 a month or less29%
$1,251–$3,333 a month37%
Over $3,333 a month34%

Jobs Quarry residents hold

476 working residents
Goods (factories, building, farms)19%
Trade, transport & utilities23%
Services (health, schools, offices…)58%
$1,250 a month or less17%
$1,251–$3,333 a month27%
Over $3,333 a month56%
+18%

Jobs based in Quarry, 2013 → 2023: 344 → 407. 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.

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