Photo: Nyttend · Public domainHouseholds in Flora earn less than those in 91% of U.S. towns
For 2% of workers, the job is at home, next to 16% for Illinois as a whole. 18.9% of residents are in poverty, where Illinois as a whole has 11.8%. Jobs and income earn Flora C−; getting around on foot earns it B−.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Flora
Flora is where the jobs are
Flora has 2,915 jobs, 1.6 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Flora makes and builds things
43% of the jobs based in Flora are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Flora residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 29%. The jobs ↓
Few Flora workers work from home
Only 3% 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.
What’s behind Flora’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Flora is better than 17% of U.S. towns, #711 of 768 in Illinois. Unemployment holds Flora’s grade up (4.0%, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($47,148, U.S. $80,734).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Flora could be anywhere from D− to B−.
Flora on a workday afternoon
On a workday 1,150 residents head out to work, 704 work right here, and 2,211 people come in from elsewhere.
About 5,700 people are in Flora on a workday afternoon, 23% more than live here.
1.6 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
A place that makes things: 43% of Flora’s jobs are in goods
2,915 jobs are based in Flora.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Flora, 2013 → 2023: 2,980 → 2,915. 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 Flora’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Flora takes about 26 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Flora workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,861 commuters (the 3% 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.
The daily trip into Flora
Where Flora clocks in
6% of workers
5% of workers
4% 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.
Flora’s commute, mile by mile
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.
Driving is how Flora gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Flora is more walkable than 46% of U.S. towns, #566 of 768 in Illinois. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 10.8% across Illinois.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,909 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 5.1% of Flora households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Flora’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Flora is 3,374th of 4,009 U.S. towns of 3,200 to 6,300
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 17 | South Barrington IL | 5,071 | $222K | 1.0% | 2.0% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 28 | Deer Park IL | 3,647 | $174K | 1.3% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,372 | Menallen Township PA | 3,980 | $64K | 17.4% | 9.7% | 5% | C− |
| 3,373 | Canyon Creek WA | 3,910 | $78K | 19.1% | 8.3% | 0% | C− |
| 3,374 | Flora IL | 4,634 | $47K | 18.9% | 4.0% | 38% | C− |
| 3,375 | Madisonville TX | 4,605 | $67K | 13.5% | 8.7% | 24% | C− |
| 3,376 | Dana NC | 4,147 | $60K | 24.7% | 6.4% | 1% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,009 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Flora, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
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 Flora: questions
What is the median household income in Flora?
$47,148 (±$15,588) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Flora?
18.9%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Flora?
26 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Flora work?
38% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Salem (6%, 26 mi), Effingham (5%, 32 mi), Louisville (4%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Flora walkable?
Flora is more walkable than 46% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 7.4 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Flora without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Flora, from the people who make the trip.
More of Flora
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. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.