Mossville has 37.6 jobs for every working resident: 4,503 people commute in to work
Employers in Mossville report 4,511 jobs for 120 working residents. Only 7% work in Mossville itself; outside it, Peoria draws the most (43%, 5 miles). 0% of workers have no commute at all; Illinois has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How a workday changes Mossville
On a workday 112 residents head out to work and 8 work right here.
About 4,400 people are in Mossville on a workday afternoon, 8610% more 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.
Where Mossville’s workforce comes from
Where Mossville clocks in
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.
In Mossville, 62% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mossville, 2013 → 2023: 5,141 → 4,511. 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 Mossville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Mossville
of Mossville workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 22 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.
Miles to work from Mossville
About 25% 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 Mossville: questions
What is the poverty rate in Mossville?
13.7%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Mossville work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Peoria (43%, 5 mi), East Peoria (4%, 10 mi), Bloomington (4%, 39 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Mossville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mossville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mossville
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.