Work & commute · Santa Fe

Work & commute in Santa Fe, IL

Most working residents leave Santa Fe for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Centralia (8%), Breese (7%) and Germantown (7%). Half commute less than 20 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

8 of 513 working residents

Typical commute

20 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

30 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

13%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 505 Santa Fe residents head out of town to work, 8 work right here, and 174 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Santa Fe.

505live here, work elsewhere

8live and work here

174work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Santa Fe goes to work

Centralia16.8 mi away

8%40

Breese7.7 mi away

7%37

Germantown6.1 mi away

7%34

St. Louis, MO44.4 mi away

4%23

Carlyle7.3 mi away

4%22

Belleville30.1 mi away

3%13

Greenville25 mi away

2%12

Chicago246.6 mi away

2%11

Nashville12.8 mi away

2%10

Brookside11.5 mi away

2%10

Everywhere elseother towns and states

59%301

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

How far

How far Santa Fe commutes

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

28%

27%

24%

21%

28%Under 10 mi

27%10–24 mi

24%25–50 mi

21%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Santa Fe is a commuter town

0.35jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Santa Fe are

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

Jobs based in Santa Fe

182 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)43%

Trade, transport & utilities25%

Services (health, schools, offices…)31%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month54%

Jobs Santa Fe residents hold

513 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)24%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)53%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month25%

Over $3,333 a month61%

+53%

Jobs based in Santa Fe, 2013 → 2023: 119 → 182. 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.