Work & commute · Rolling Meadows

Work & commute in Rolling Meadows, IL

Most working residents leave Rolling Meadows for work: only 6% work in town. The top destinations are Chicago (17%), Schaumburg (7%) and Arlington Heights (7%). Half commute less than 10 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

638 of 11,225 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

15%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 10,587 Rolling Meadows residents head out of town to work, 638 work right here, and 24,643 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Rolling Meadows.

10,587live here, work elsewhere

638live and work here

24,643work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Rolling Meadows goes to work

Chicago24 mi away

17%1,868

Schaumburg4.4 mi away

7%819

Arlington Heights2.7 mi away

7%815

Rolling Meadows (in town)right here

6%638

Palatine3 mi away

4%456

Elk Grove Village5.1 mi away

4%450

Mount Prospect4.6 mi away

2%255

Des Plaines7 mi away

2%254

Wheeling6.5 mi away

2%185

Hoffman Estates6.2 mi away

2%178

Everywhere elseother towns and states

47%5,307

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

How far

How far Rolling Meadows commutes

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

49%

40%

49%Under 10 mi

40%10–24 mi

7%25–50 mi

4%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Rolling Meadows is a job hub

2.25jobs per working resident

A job hub

2.3 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Rolling Meadows are

25,281 jobs are based in Rolling Meadows. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Rolling Meadows’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Rolling Meadows

25,281 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)23%

Trade, transport & utilities15%

Services (health, schools, offices…)62%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month18%

Over $3,333 a month71%

Jobs Rolling Meadows residents hold

11,225 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)14%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)64%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month23%

Over $3,333 a month66%

+34%

Jobs based in Rolling Meadows, 2013 → 2023: 18,926 → 25,281. 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.