Work & commute · St. Clair

Work & commute in St. Clair, IL

Most working residents leave St. Clair for work: only 5% work in town. The top destinations are Belleville (17%), St. Louis (12%) and O'Fallon (5%). Half commute less than 14 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

767 of 14,964 working residents

Typical commute

14 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

23 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 14,197 St. Clair residents head out of town to work, 767 work right here, and 5,391 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in St. Clair.

14,197live here, work elsewhere

767live and work here

5,391work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where St. Clair goes to work

Belleville1.4 mi away

17%2,556

St. Louis, MO16 mi away

12%1,773

O'Fallon5.7 mi away

5%805

Fairview Heights4.5 mi away

5%674

Swansea1.3 mi away

4%583

Edwardsville17.7 mi away

3%470

East St. Louis10 mi away

2%358

Chicago258.3 mi away

2%317

Shiloh3.7 mi away

2%314

Collinsville10.1 mi away

2%269

Everywhere elseother towns and states

46%6,845

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

How far

How far St. Clair commutes

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

42%

34%

16%

42%Under 10 mi

34%10–24 mi

8%25–50 mi

16%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

St. Clair is a commuter town

0.41jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in St. Clair are

6,158 jobs are based in St. Clair. Here is what they are, next to the jobs St. Clair’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in St. Clair

6,158 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)11%

Trade, transport & utilities13%

Services (health, schools, offices…)76%

$1,250 a month or less21%

$1,251–$3,333 a month36%

Over $3,333 a month42%

Jobs St. Clair residents hold

14,964 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)10%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)70%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month57%

+2%

Jobs based in St. Clair, 2013 → 2023: 6,056 → 6,158. 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.