Photo: Editor1229 · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.0 jobs for every working resident, most of Mill Shoals works elsewhere
A typical one-way commute lasts 34 minutes (Illinois 28, U.S. 26). 2 jobs are based in Mill Shoals, against 59 working residents. Hardly any work in Mill Shoals itself; outside it, Carmi draws the most (12%, 15 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How many people are in Mill Shoals by day
On a workday 59 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 2 people come in from elsewhere.
About 110 people are in Mill Shoals on a workday afternoon, 34% 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 Mill Shoals commutes to
Where Mill Shoals clocks in
12% of workers
7% of workers
7% 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.
What Mill Shoals’ employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
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 Mill Shoals’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Mill Shoals: about 34 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mill Shoals workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 43 commuters (the 10% 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.
Mill Shoals’ commute, mile by mile
About 34% 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 Mill Shoals: questions
What is the median household income in Mill Shoals?
$58,875 (±$12,497) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mill Shoals?
13.5%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mill Shoals?
34 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mill Shoals work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Carmi (12%, 15 mi), Mount Vernon (7%, 31 mi), Evansville (7%, 48 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Mill Shoals without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mill Shoals, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mill Shoals
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.