Photo: IvoShandor · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Franklin Grove commutes out: there are 0.4 jobs for every working resident
Working from home is the commute for 3% of workers, where Illinois as a whole has 16%. Employers in Franklin Grove report 160 jobs for 362 working residents. Only 2% stay in Franklin Grove for work; outside it, Dixon is the main destination (23%, 9 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Franklin Grove in brief
Franklin Grove and Dixon trade workers both ways
Dixon is the top workplace for Franklin Grove residents (23%) and also where the most people who work in Franklin Grove come from (18% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Franklin Grove than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Franklin Grove fell from 319 in 2013 to 160 in 2023, −50%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
A big share show a job far from home
32% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
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 362 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The towns that employ Franklin Grove’s residents
Where Franklin Grove clocks in
23% of workers
7% 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.
Franklin Grove is a services town
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Franklin Grove, 2013 → 2023: 319 → 160. 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 Franklin Grove’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The distance from Franklin Grove to work
About 32% 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.
The daily commute in and out of Franklin Grove
On a workday 354 residents head out to work, 8 work right here, and 152 people come in from elsewhere.
About 670 people are in Franklin Grove on a workday afternoon, 23% 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.
About 27 minutes to work from Franklin Grove
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Franklin Grove workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 395 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.
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 Franklin Grove: questions
What is the median household income in Franklin Grove?
$58,618 (±$7,775) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Franklin Grove?
12.8%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Franklin Grove?
27 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Franklin Grove work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Dixon (23%, 9 mi), Ashton (7%, 4 mi), Rockford (4%, 31 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Franklin Grove without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Franklin Grove, from the people who make the trip.
More of Franklin Grove
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.