Work & commute · St. Jacob

Work & commute in St. Jacob, IL

Most working residents leave St. Jacob for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Highland (14%), St. Louis (8%) and Edwardsville (7%). Half commute less than 17 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

32 of 1,395 working residents

Typical commute

17 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

26 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

11%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,363 St. Jacob residents head out of town to work, 32 work right here, and 241 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in St. Jacob.

1,363live here, work elsewhere

32live and work here

241work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where St. Jacob goes to work

Highland6.4 mi away

14%198

St. Louis, MO27 mi away

8%107

Edwardsville14.6 mi away

7%92

Troy8.1 mi away

4%51

Belleville17.8 mi away

3%46

Saline8.4 mi away

3%37

O'Fallon11 mi away

2%33

Springfield76.2 mi away

2%32

Collinsville13.9 mi away

2%30

Granite City20.4 mi away

2%29

Everywhere elseother towns and states

53%740

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

How far

How far St. Jacob commutes

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

30%

34%

21%

15%

30%Under 10 mi

34%10–24 mi

21%25–50 mi

15%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

St. Jacob is a commuter town

0.20jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in St. Jacob are

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

Jobs based in St. Jacob

273 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)39%

Trade, transport & utilities8%

Services (health, schools, offices…)53%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month26%

Over $3,333 a month55%

Jobs St. Jacob residents hold

1,395 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)23%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)59%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month19%

Over $3,333 a month67%

+61%

Jobs based in St. Jacob, 2013 → 2023: 170 → 273. 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.