Work & commute · Sugar Creek

Work & commute in Sugar Creek, IL

Most working residents leave Sugar Creek for work: only 14% work in town. The top destinations are Trenton (8%), Breese (7%) and Belleville (6%). Half commute less than 18 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

14%

478 of 3,352 working residents

Typical commute

18 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

27 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 2,874 Sugar Creek residents head out of town to work, 478 work right here, and 1,055 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Sugar Creek.

2,874live here, work elsewhere

478live and work here

1,055work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Sugar Creek goes to work

Trenton1.6 mi away

8%253

Breese7.1 mi away

7%225

Belleville19.3 mi away

6%208

St. Louis, MO31.8 mi away

6%203

Aviston2.5 mi away

4%135

Highland11.1 mi away

4%131

O'Fallon14.1 mi away

3%104

Sugar Creek (in town)right here

3%90

Edwardsville21.8 mi away

2%61

Fairview Heights18.9 mi away

2%57

Everywhere elseother towns and states

56%1,885

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

How far

How far Sugar Creek commutes

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

33%

31%

23%

13%

33%Under 10 mi

31%10–24 mi

23%25–50 mi

13%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Sugar Creek is a commuter town

0.46jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Sugar Creek are

1,533 jobs are based in Sugar Creek. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Sugar Creek’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Sugar Creek

1,533 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)24%

Trade, transport & utilities25%

Services (health, schools, offices…)52%

$1,250 a month or less19%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month54%

Jobs Sugar Creek residents hold

3,352 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)19%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)61%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month21%

Over $3,333 a month64%

−7%

Jobs based in Sugar Creek, 2013 → 2023: 1,643 → 1,533. 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.