Percy has 0.2 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Hardly any stay in Percy for work; outside it, Steeleville is the main destination (24%, 2 miles). Percy has 95 jobs for 399 working residents. For 4% of workers, the job is at home; Illinois has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Percy in brief
Percy and Steeleville trade workers both ways
Steeleville is the top workplace for Percy residents (24%) and also where the most people who work in Percy come from (17% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Percy is a place people come home to
There are 95 jobs based in Percy, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Percy has about 600 people in it, 34% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Few Percy workers work from home
Only 4% of workers work from home, against 16% across Illinois. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
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 399 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Out of Percy to work: where people go
Where Percy clocks in
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 flow of workers through Percy
On a workday 397 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 93 people come in from elsewhere.
About 600 people are in Percy 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.
A commute of about 22 minutes in Percy
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Percy workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 370 commuters (the 4% 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.
65% of the jobs in Percy pay over $3,333 a month
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Percy, 2013 → 2023: 115 → 95. 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 Percy’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The commute from Percy, by distance
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 Percy: questions
What is the median household income in Percy?
$44,015 (±$6,706) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Percy?
15.8%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Percy?
22 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Percy work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Steeleville (24%, 2 mi), Chester (10%, 13 mi), Sparta (9%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Percy without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Percy, from the people who make the trip.
More of Percy
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.