Work & commute · Tower Hill

Work & commute in Tower Hill, IL

Most working residents leave Tower Hill for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Shelbyville (22%), Pana (7%) and Mattoon (4%). Half commute less than 27 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

3 of 402 working residents

Typical commute

27 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

19 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 399 Tower Hill residents head out of town to work, 3 work right here, and 25 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Tower Hill.

399live here, work elsewhere

3live and work here

25work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Tower Hill goes to work

Shelbyville9.8 mi away

22%90

Pana5.7 mi away

7%30

Mattoon33.6 mi away

4%18

Decatur31.9 mi away

4%18

Springfield44.5 mi away

4%17

Assumption9.1 mi away

4%16

Effingham30 mi away

3%13

Chicago181.9 mi away

3%13

Taylorville21.3 mi away

3%12

Bloomington74.6 mi away

3%11

Everywhere elseother towns and states

41%164

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

How far

How far Tower Hill commutes

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

31%

17%

27%

24%

31%Under 10 mi

17%10–24 mi

27%25–50 mi

24%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Tower Hill is a commuter town

0.07jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Tower Hill are

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

Jobs based in Tower Hill

28 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)21%

Trade, transport & utilities0%

Services (health, schools, offices…)79%

$1,250 a month or less39%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month32%

Jobs Tower Hill residents hold

402 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)25%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)55%

$1,250 a month or less19%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month54%

−38%

Jobs based in Tower Hill, 2013 → 2023: 45 → 28. 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.