Work & commute · Spring Garden

Work & commute in Spring Garden, IL

Most working residents leave Spring Garden for work: only 6% work in town. The top destinations are Mount Vernon (36%), Ina (5%) and Dodds (3%). Half commute less than 15 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

41 of 699 working residents

Typical commute

15 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

21 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 658 Spring Garden residents head out of town to work, 41 work right here, and 980 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Spring Garden.

658live here, work elsewhere

41live and work here

980work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Spring Garden goes to work

Mount Vernon10.8 mi away

36%250

Ina1.9 mi away

5%34

Dodds6.4 mi away

3%23

Springfield119.9 mi away

2%14

Salem32.5 mi away

2%13

Marion29.8 mi away

2%13

Carbondale35.9 mi away

2%12

Benton10.6 mi away

2%11

Effingham68.4 mi away

2%11

Chicago261.5 mi away

2%11

Everywhere elseother towns and states

44%307

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

How far

How far Spring Garden commutes

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

19%

34%

13%

33%

19%Under 10 mi

34%10–24 mi

13%25–50 mi

33%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Spring Garden is balanced between jobs and homes

1.46jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.46 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Spring Garden are

1,021 jobs are based in Spring Garden. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Spring Garden’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Spring Garden

1,021 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)7%

Trade, transport & utilities14%

Services (health, schools, offices…)79%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month24%

Over $3,333 a month65%

Jobs Spring Garden residents hold

699 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)24%

Trade, transport & utilities25%

Services (health, schools, offices…)52%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month53%

+3%

Jobs based in Spring Garden, 2013 → 2023: 992 → 1,021. 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.

Work & commute in Spring Garden, IL

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

Where Spring Garden goes to work

How far Spring Garden commutes

Spring Garden is balanced between jobs and homes

What the jobs in Spring Garden are

Jobs based in Spring Garden

Jobs Spring Garden residents hold

How to read this page

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