Work & commute · Sugar Grove

Work & commute in Sugar Grove, IL

Most working residents leave Sugar Grove for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Chicago (13%), Aurora (12%) and Naperville (5%). Half commute less than 20 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

448 of 11,219 working residents

Typical commute

20 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

34 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

24%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 10,771 Sugar Grove residents head out of town to work, 448 work right here, and 3,752 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Sugar Grove.

10,771live here, work elsewhere

448live and work here

3,752work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Sugar Grove goes to work

Chicago38.7 mi away

13%1,470

Aurora7.3 mi away

12%1,367

Naperville14 mi away

5%584

Sugar Grove1 mi away

3%332

Geneva9.4 mi away

3%309

Batavia8.3 mi away

3%291

St. Charles12.1 mi away

2%251

Downers Grove21.2 mi away

2%212

Schaumburg25.3 mi away

2%173

Elgin19.5 mi away

1%165

Everywhere elseother towns and states

54%6,065

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

How far

How far Sugar Grove commutes

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

27%

33%

36%

27%Under 10 mi

33%10–24 mi

36%25–50 mi

4%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Sugar Grove is a commuter town

0.37jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Sugar Grove are

4,200 jobs are based in Sugar Grove. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Sugar Grove’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Sugar Grove

4,200 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)10%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)72%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month52%

Jobs Sugar Grove residents hold

11,219 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)14%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)64%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month19%

Over $3,333 a month68%

+12%

Jobs based in Sugar Grove, 2013 → 2023: 3,735 → 4,200. 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.