Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0With 0.4 jobs for every working resident, most of Joppa works elsewhere
Joppa has 59 jobs; 140 of its residents have a job. Hardly any stay in Joppa for work; outside it, Metropolis is the main destination (24%, 10 miles). 0% 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
Who works in Joppa, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 140 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 59 people come in from elsewhere.
About 250 people are in Joppa on a workday afternoon, 25% 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.
The places Joppa commutes to
Where Joppa clocks in
24% of workers
23% 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.
Most jobs in Joppa are in services
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Joppa, 2013 → 2023: 162 → 59. 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 Joppa’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Joppa takes about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Joppa workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 50 commuters (the 0% 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 distance from Joppa to work
About 21% 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 Joppa: questions
What is the median household income in Joppa?
$41,563 (±$7,586) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Joppa?
22.4%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Joppa?
24 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Joppa work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Metropolis (24%, 10 mi), Paducah (23%, 15 mi), Marion (4%, 37 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Joppa without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 24% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Joppa, from the people who make the trip.
More of Joppa
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.