Photo: Dual Freq · CC BY 2.5Dewey has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
Working from home is the commute for 20% of workers; Illinois has 16%. Dewey has 16 jobs, and 37 of its residents work somewhere. Only 3% work in Dewey; the top destination outside it is Champaign (16%, 14 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How a workday changes Dewey
On a workday 36 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 15 people come in from elsewhere.
About 68 people are in Dewey on a workday afternoon, 24% 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 Dewey goes to work
Where Dewey clocks in
16% of workers
11% 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.
75% of the jobs in Dewey pay over $3,333 a month
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Dewey, 2013 → 2023: 21 → 16. 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 Dewey’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Dewey
of Dewey workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 40 commuters (the 20% 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.
Dewey’s commute, mile by mile
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 Dewey: questions
What is the poverty rate in Dewey?
0.0%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Dewey work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Champaign (16%, 14 mi), Rantoul (11%, 7 mi), Urbana (11%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Dewey 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 Dewey, from the people who make the trip.
More of Dewey
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.