Work & commute · Yellowhead

Work & commute in Yellowhead, IL

Most working residents leave Yellowhead for work: only 7% work in town. The top destinations are Chicago (8%), Kankakee (7%) and Momence (6%). Half commute less than 20 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

69 of 1,049 working residents

Typical commute

20 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

33 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 980 Yellowhead residents head out of town to work, 69 work right here, and 434 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Yellowhead.

980live here, work elsewhere

69live and work here

434work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Yellowhead goes to work

Chicago39.9 mi away

8%87

Kankakee18.1 mi away

7%75

Momence7.9 mi away

6%64

Grant Park2.7 mi away

5%53

Bradley15 mi away

4%42

Momence6.6 mi away

3%36

Beecher6.1 mi away

2%25

Manteno13.2 mi away

2%23

Bourbonnais16 mi away

2%21

Joliet33.8 mi away

2%20

Everywhere elseother towns and states

57%603

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

How far

How far Yellowhead commutes

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

24%

33%

24%

20%

24%Under 10 mi

33%10–24 mi

24%25–50 mi

20%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Yellowhead is a commuter town

0.48jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Yellowhead are

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

Jobs based in Yellowhead

503 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)41%

Trade, transport & utilities12%

Services (health, schools, offices…)47%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month56%

Jobs Yellowhead residents hold

1,049 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)23%

Trade, transport & utilities25%

Services (health, schools, offices…)52%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month58%

−13%

Jobs based in Yellowhead, 2013 → 2023: 577 → 503. 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.