Photo: Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0Chandlerville has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
8% of workers work from home (Illinois 16%). Chandlerville has 57 jobs; 244 of its residents have a job. Hardly any stay in Chandlerville for work; outside it, Springfield is the main destination (32%, 32 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Chandlerville and work: the main findings
Chandlerville is a place people come home to
There are 57 jobs based in Chandlerville, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Chandlerville has about 320 people in it, 37% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
One in three of Chandlerville works in Springfield
78 working residents, 32%, have their main job in Springfield, 32 miles away. That’s 32 times as many as work in Chandlerville itself. The commute map ↓
Commutes from Chandlerville are quick
The average trip to work takes 22 minutes, against 28 across Illinois. That’s about 46 hours a year less on the road than the typical Illinois worker. 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 244 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The workday shuffle in and out of Chandlerville
On a workday 242 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 55 people come in from elsewhere.
About 320 people are in Chandlerville on a workday afternoon, 37% 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.
Where Chandlerville goes to work
Where Chandlerville clocks in
32% of workers
7% of workers
6% 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.
From Chandlerville, about 22 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Chandlerville workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 188 commuters (the 8% 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.
Most jobs in Chandlerville are in services
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Chandlerville, 2013 → 2023: 60 → 57. 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 Chandlerville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The commute from Chandlerville, by distance
About 26% 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 Chandlerville: questions
What is the median household income in Chandlerville?
$44,375 (±$20,026) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Chandlerville?
16.3%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Chandlerville?
22 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Chandlerville work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Springfield (32%, 32 mi), Jacksonville (7%, 22 mi), Ashland (6%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Chandlerville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Chandlerville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Chandlerville
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.