Work & commute · Scales Mound

Work & commute in Scales Mound, IL

Most working residents leave Scales Mound for work: only 8% work in town. The top destinations are Galena (9%), Dubuque (8%) and The Galena Territory (4%). Half commute less than 23 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

16 of 192 working residents

Typical commute

23 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

37 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

10%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 176 Scales Mound residents head out of town to work, 16 work right here, and 145 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Scales Mound.

176live here, work elsewhere

16live and work here

145work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Scales Mound goes to work

Galena9.6 mi away

9%18

Scales Mound (in town)right here

8%16

Dubuque, IA23.2 mi away

8%16

The Galena Territory6.7 mi away

4%8

Freeport34.1 mi away

4%7

East Dubuque19 mi away

3%6

Scales Mound0.7 mi away

3%6

Stockton15.3 mi away

2%4

Chicago138.7 mi away

2%4

Rockford62.5 mi away

2%4

Everywhere elseother towns and states

54%103

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

How far

How far Scales Mound commutes

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

28%

30%

10%

33%

28%Under 10 mi

30%10–24 mi

10%25–50 mi

33%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Scales Mound is balanced between jobs and homes

0.84jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.84 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Scales Mound are

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

Jobs based in Scales Mound

161 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)19%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)61%

$1,250 a month or less21%

$1,251–$3,333 a month34%

Over $3,333 a month45%

Jobs Scales Mound residents hold

192 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)17%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)60%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month52%

+64%

Jobs based in Scales Mound, 2013 → 2023: 98 → 161. 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.