Photo: Mlw126 · CC BY-SA 4.0Oak Run has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
60 jobs are based in Oak Run for 290 working residents. Hardly any stay in Oak Run for work; outside it, Galesburg is the main destination (27%, 13 miles). The trip to work takes 27 minutes on average, next to 28 for Illinois and 26 for the U.S.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Oak Run apart
Oak Run and Galesburg trade workers both ways
Galesburg is the top workplace for Oak Run residents (27%) and also where the most people who work in Oak Run come from (28% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Oak Run is a place people come home to
There are 60 jobs based in Oak Run, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Oak Run has about 570 people in it, 29% 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 290 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Oak Run goes to work
Where Oak Run clocks in
27% 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.
How a workday changes Oak Run
On a workday 290 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 60 people come in from elsewhere.
About 570 people are in Oak Run on a workday afternoon, 29% 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.
Mostly services: health care, schools and offices
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Oak Run, 2013 → 2023: 44 → 60. 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 Oak Run’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Oak Run: about 27 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Oak Run workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 325 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.
The distance from Oak Run to work
About 28% 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 Oak Run: questions
What is the median household income in Oak Run?
$100,417 (±$23,581) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Oak Run?
3.3%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Oak Run?
27 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Oak Run work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Galesburg (27%, 13 mi), Peoria (10%, 30 mi), Chicago (4%, 140 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Oak Run without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Oak Run, from the people who make the trip.
More of Oak Run
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.