Work & commute · Stites

Work & commute in Stites, IL

Most working residents leave Stites for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are St. Louis (18%), East St. Louis (11%) and Belleville (4%). Half commute less than 10 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

3 of 184 working residents

Typical commute

10 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

25 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

21%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 181 Stites residents head out of town to work, 3 work right here, and 470 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Stites.

181live here, work elsewhere

3live and work here

470work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Stites goes to work

St. Louis, MO4.6 mi away

18%34

East St. Louis3 mi away

11%20

Belleville13.2 mi away

4%7

Edwardsville13.4 mi away

4%7

Granite City5.7 mi away

4%7

Fairview Heights9.3 mi away

3%6

Chicago255.9 mi away

3%6

Cahokia Heights5.5 mi away

3%5

Town and Country, MO17 mi away

3%5

Swansea11.7 mi away

2%4

Everywhere elseother towns and states

45%83

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

How far

How far Stites commutes

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

51%

29%

17%

51%Under 10 mi

29%10–24 mi

4%25–50 mi

17%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Stites is a job hub

2.57jobs per working resident

A job hub

2.6 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Stites are

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

Jobs based in Stites

473 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)12%

Trade, transport & utilities72%

Services (health, schools, offices…)16%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month26%

Over $3,333 a month64%

Jobs Stites residents hold

184 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)7%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)76%

$1,250 a month or less21%

$1,251–$3,333 a month45%

Over $3,333 a month35%

+75%

Jobs based in Stites, 2013 → 2023: 270 → 473. 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.