Beecher City has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
There are 56 jobs in Beecher City for 204 working residents. Hardly any stay in Beecher City for work; outside it, Effingham is the main destination (43%, 14 miles). 4% of workers work from home, where Illinois as a whole has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Beecher City and work: the main findings
43% of Beecher City works in Effingham
87 working residents, 43%, have their main job in Effingham, 14 miles away. That’s far more as work in Beecher City itself. The commute map ↓
Beecher City is a place people come home to
There are 56 jobs based in Beecher City, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Beecher City has about 280 people in it, 35% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Few Beecher City workers work from home
Only 4% of workers work from home, against 16% across Illinois. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 204 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Beecher City goes to work
Where Beecher City clocks in
43% of workers
3% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
How many people are in Beecher City by day
On a workday 203 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 55 people come in from elsewhere.
About 280 people are in Beecher City on a workday afternoon, 35% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
From Beecher City, about 28 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Beecher City workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 177 commuters (the 4% who work from home are left out). Across Illinois: 78% drive alone, 7% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Beecher City works in goods: 41% of its jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Beecher City, 2013 → 2023: 36 → 56. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Beecher City’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Beecher City’s workers travel
About 27% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Beecher City: questions
What is the median household income in Beecher City?
$43,750 (±$15,658) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Beecher City?
25.8%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Beecher City?
28 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Beecher City work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Effingham (43%, 14 mi), Teutopolis (4%, 17 mi), Springfield (3%, 62 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Beecher City without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 11% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Beecher City, from the people who make the trip.
More of Beecher City
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer.