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Work & commute · Texas

Work & commute in Texas, IL

Most working residents leave Texas for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Clinton (28%), Decatur (9%) and Springfield (5%). Half commute less than 21 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times
Work in town
4%
20 of 479 working residents
Typical commute
21 mi
Half commute less than this, straight-line
Average commute time
25 min
One way, from the Census survey
Work from home
15%
of workers, from the Census survey
Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 459 Texas residents head out of town to work, 20 work right here, and 730 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Texas.

459live here, work elsewhere
20live and work here
730work here, live elsewhere
Leave for workStayCome in
The map

Where Texas goes to work

ClintonLincolnMortonQuincyPekinChampaignDecaturBloomingtonChicagoPeoriaSpringfieldTexasTunbridgeCreekClintoniaMaroaClintonDecaturSpringfieldBloomingtonChicagoChampaignClintoniaLincolnPeoriaTexas
1
Clinton3.4 mi away
28%132
2
Decatur16.9 mi away
9%43
3
Springfield41.5 mi away
5%23
4
Bloomington26 mi away
4%19
5
Chicago137.6 mi away
3%15
6
Champaign36.9 mi away
3%12
7
Clintonia5.6 mi away
3%12
8
Lincoln21.4 mi away
2%10
9
Peoria56.4 mi away
2%10
10
Texas (in town)right here
2%10
Everywhere elseother towns and states
40%193

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

How far

How far Texas commutes

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

37%Under 10 mi
20%10–24 mi
16%25–50 mi
27%Over 50 mi
Job hub or commuter town?

Texas is a job hub

1.57jobs per working resident
A job hub

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Texas are

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

Jobs based in Texas

750 jobs
Goods (factories, building, farms)12%
Trade, transport & utilities14%
Services (health, schools, offices…)74%
$1,250 a month or less3%
$1,251–$3,333 a month16%
Over $3,333 a month80%

Jobs Texas residents hold

479 working residents
Goods (factories, building, farms)17%
Trade, transport & utilities27%
Services (health, schools, offices…)56%
$1,250 a month or less15%
$1,251–$3,333 a month24%
Over $3,333 a month61%
+199%

Jobs based in Texas, 2013 → 2023: 251 → 750. 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.

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