Photo: Dual Freq · CC BY 2.5Mansfield has 0.2 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Only 1% work in Mansfield itself; outside it, Champaign draws the most (25%, 14 miles). There are 72 jobs in Mansfield, against 393 working residents. 7% of workers have no commute at all, where Illinois as a whole has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Mansfield apart
Mansfield and Champaign trade workers both ways
Champaign is the top workplace for Mansfield residents (25%) and also where the most people who work in Mansfield come from (17% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Mansfield is a place people come home to
There are 72 jobs based in Mansfield, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Mansfield has about 600 people in it, 35% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
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 393 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where the trip to work from Mansfield ends
Where Mansfield clocks in
25% of workers
11% of workers
9% 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.
The daily commute in and out of Mansfield
On a workday 389 residents head out to work, 4 work right here, and 68 people come in from elsewhere.
About 600 people are in Mansfield on a workday afternoon, 35% 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.
What Mansfield’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mansfield, 2013 → 2023: 54 → 72. 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 Mansfield’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 27 minutes from Mansfield
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mansfield workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 424 commuters (the 7% 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.
How far it is to work from Mansfield
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 Mansfield: questions
What is the median household income in Mansfield?
$78,750 (±$10,740) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mansfield?
8.3%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mansfield?
27 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mansfield work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Champaign (25%, 14 mi), Urbana (11%, 18 mi), Monticello (9%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Mansfield without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mansfield, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mansfield
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.