Photo: Robert Lawton · CC BY-SA 2.5Household incomes in O'Fallon are higher than in 81% of U.S. towns
6.2% of residents live below the poverty line, next to 11.8% for Illinois as a whole. O'Fallon grades A for jobs and income and A− for walkability. Transit is limited for a town this walkable: about 3.8 trips an hour stop near the typical resident at the evening peak, against 36.9 in Chicago.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in O'Fallon
How O'Fallon earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, O'Fallon is better than 85% of U.S. towns, #178 of 768 in Illinois. Job access by car is its strongest input (ahead of 84% of U.S. towns); unemployment ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (3.7%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate and unemployment.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, O'Fallon could be anywhere from B+ to A.
12% of working residents work in St. Louis
Where O'Fallon clocks in
12% 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.
How many people are in O'Fallon by day
On a workday 11,806 residents head out to work, 1,835 work right here, and 9,647 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.84 per resident).
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 the 11,482 jobs in O'Fallon are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in O'Fallon, 2013 → 2023: 9,446 → 11,482. 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 O'Fallon’s own residents hold wherever they work.
O'Fallon’s commute takes about 25 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of O'Fallon workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 12,089 commuters (the 20% 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 commute from O'Fallon, by distance
About 16% 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.
Good to walk, short on transit: O'Fallon
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 3.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 10.8% across Illinois.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 15,187 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 46% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 20% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 3.8 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 79% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 5.9% of O'Fallon households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of O'Fallon’s commuters take a bus or train.
How O'Fallon ranks: 341st of 1,283 U.S. towns of 23,000 to 44,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Upper Dublin Township PA | 27,258 | $168K | 3.2% | 1.9% | 8% | A+ |
| 2 | Southlake TX | 31,175 | $250K | 1.5% | 2.7% | 11% | A+ |
| 3 | Leawood KS | 34,093 | $186K | 3.1% | 2.0% | 9% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 7 | West Deerfield Township IL | 32,111 | $205K | 2.7% | 2.7% | 9% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 18 | New Lenox IL | 28,893 | $141K | 1.5% | 2.9% | 9% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 31 | Bartlett IL | 40,855 | $133K | 4.2% | 2.6% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 339 | Mountain House CA | 25,315 | $177K | 5.0% | 3.5% | 5% | A |
| 340 | Tysons VA | 28,936 | $130K | 7.9% | 4.5% | 21% | A |
| 341 | O'Fallon IL | 32,656 | $106K | 6.2% | 3.7% | 13% | A |
| 342 | Roy UT | 38,794 | $91K | 5.0% | 2.8% | 7% | A |
| 343 | Simsbury CT | 25,582 | $158K | 4.8% | 5.0% | 15% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,283 | Bullhead City AZ | 43,987 | $51K | 18.7% | 11.5% | 26% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of O'Fallon, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
Next door to O'Fallon
The biggest share goes to Fairview Heights (4%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | O'Fallon workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| O'Fallon | – | A | A− | 25 min | $105,982 |
| Shiloh | 3% | A | B+ | 25 min | $99,573 |
| O'Fallon Township | under 2% | A− | A− | 26 min | $100,136 |
| Fairview Heights | 4% | B | A− | 22 min | $80,930 |
| Scott AFB | under 2% | A | B+ | 14 min | $103,390 |
| Caseyville Township | under 2% | B+ | A− | 22 min | $87,204 |
| Shiloh Valley Township | under 2% | A | A− | 19 min | $104,772 |
| Swansea | 2% | B+ | B | 24 min | $91,587 |
| St. Clair Township | under 2% | B | A− | 23 min | $80,309 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of O'Fallon’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 O'Fallon: questions
What is the median household income in O'Fallon?
$105,982 (±$6,723) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in O'Fallon?
6.2%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from O'Fallon?
25 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 20% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in O'Fallon work?
13% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are St. Louis (12%, 18 mi), Belleville (9%, 7 mi), Fairview Heights (4%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is O'Fallon walkable?
O'Fallon is more walkable than 81% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 10.3 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around O'Fallon without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. 20% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from O'Fallon, from the people who make the trip.
More of O'Fallon
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. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.