Work & commute · Sugar Loaf

Work & commute in Sugar Loaf, IL

Most working residents leave Sugar Loaf for work: only 8% work in town. The top destinations are St. Louis (12%), Dupo (6%) and Columbia (6%). Half commute less than 12 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

263 of 3,271 working residents

Typical commute

12 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

25 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 3,008 Sugar Loaf residents head out of town to work, 263 work right here, and 1,102 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Sugar Loaf.

3,008live here, work elsewhere

263live and work here

1,102work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Sugar Loaf goes to work

St. Louis, MO8.9 mi away

12%392

Dupo1.7 mi away

6%211

Columbia4.3 mi away

6%196

Belleville10.6 mi away

5%154

Cahokia Heights4.3 mi away

3%102

Sauget5.2 mi away

2%79

Waterloo12.2 mi away

2%67

Maryland Heights, MO20.8 mi away

2%66

Chicago264.8 mi away

2%65

O'Fallon15.8 mi away

2%52

Everywhere elseother towns and states

58%1,887

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

How far

How far Sugar Loaf commutes

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

42%

36%

16%

42%Under 10 mi

36%10–24 mi

6%25–50 mi

16%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Sugar Loaf is a commuter town

0.42jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Sugar Loaf are

1,365 jobs are based in Sugar Loaf. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Sugar Loaf’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Sugar Loaf

1,365 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)22%

Trade, transport & utilities44%

Services (health, schools, offices…)34%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month20%

Over $3,333 a month68%

Jobs Sugar Loaf residents hold

3,271 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)17%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)60%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month57%

+11%

Jobs based in Sugar Loaf, 2013 → 2023: 1,225 → 1,365. 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.