Work & commute · Rock Creek-Lima

Work & commute in Rock Creek-Lima, IL

Most working residents leave Rock Creek-Lima for work: only 8% work in town. The top destinations are Freeport (13%), Lanark (8%) and Shannon (7%). Half commute less than 17 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

59 of 708 working residents

Typical commute

17 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

25 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 649 Rock Creek-Lima residents head out of town to work, 59 work right here, and 392 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Rock Creek-Lima.

649live here, work elsewhere

59live and work here

392work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Rock Creek-Lima goes to work

Freeport17.2 mi away

13%91

Lanark4.2 mi away

8%54

Shannon6.5 mi away

7%49

Sterling18.5 mi away

4%31

Mount Carroll10.7 mi away

4%29

Savanna18.9 mi away

3%22

Lake Carroll8.8 mi away

3%19

Milledgeville6.8 mi away

3%18

Chicago108.4 mi away

3%18

Sterling17.6 mi away

2%14

Everywhere elseother towns and states

51%363

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

How far

How far Rock Creek-Lima commutes

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

27%

40%

24%

27%Under 10 mi

40%10–24 mi

8%25–50 mi

24%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Rock Creek-Lima is a commuter town

0.64jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Rock Creek-Lima are

451 jobs are based in Rock Creek-Lima. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Rock Creek-Lima’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Rock Creek-Lima

451 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)19%

Trade, transport & utilities30%

Services (health, schools, offices…)51%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month37%

Over $3,333 a month44%

Jobs Rock Creek-Lima residents hold

708 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)25%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)57%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month55%

−2%

Jobs based in Rock Creek-Lima, 2013 → 2023: 460 → 451. 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.