There are 1.8 jobs in Scott AFB for every working resident, and 1,562 people commute in
The two grades for Scott AFB are A for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. 1,582 jobs are based in Scott AFB for 864 working residents. Home is the office for 6% of workers, against 16% across Illinois.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Scott AFB and work: the main findings
Scott AFB is where the jobs are
Scott AFB has 1,582 jobs, 1.8 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Scott AFB are quick
The average trip to work takes 14 minutes, against 28 across Illinois. That’s about 107 hours a year less on the road than the typical Illinois worker, and quicker than any town next door (23 to 25 minutes). Time on the road ↓
Nearly all the work in Scott AFB is services
97% of the jobs based here are in services, such as health care, schools and offices. Only 0% are in factories, building or farms. The jobs ↓
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 864 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The figures behind Scott AFB’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Scott AFB is better than 90% of U.S. towns, #117 of 768 in Illinois. All four inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Scott AFB’s grade. It also does well on household income and the poverty rate and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Scott AFB could be anywhere from B+ to A+.
How many people are in Scott AFB by day
On a workday 844 residents head out to work and 20 work right here.
About 4,700 people are in Scott AFB on a workday afternoon, 18% more than live here.
1.8 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
From Scott AFB, about 14 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Scott AFB workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,840 commuters (the 6% 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.
Most jobs in Scott AFB are in services
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Scott AFB, 2013 → 2023: 1,405 → 1,582. 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 Scott AFB’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where Scott AFB’s workers come from
Where Scott AFB clocks in
11% of workers
10% of workers
5% 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 distance from Scott AFB to work
About 32% 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.
For most of Scott AFB, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Scott AFB is more walkable than 68% of U.S. towns, #406 of 768 in Illinois. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 7.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 10.8% across Illinois, on an EPA index of 6.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,960 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 13.7 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 96% 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). 1.5% of Scott AFB households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Scott AFB’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 4,084 U.S. towns of 2,800 to 5,300, Scott AFB comes 399th on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 13 | South Barrington IL | 5,071 | $222K | 1.0% | 2.0% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 25 | Deer Park IL | 3,647 | $174K | 1.3% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 397 | Sugar Creek WI | 3,888 | $102K | 2.4% | 2.5% | 2% | A |
| 398 | Greenville DE | 3,713 | $143K | 4.0% | 4.2% | 3% | A |
| 399 | Scott AFB IL | 3,957 | $103K | 5.7% | 2.3% | 2% | A |
| 400 | St. Augusta MN | 3,799 | $140K | 0.0% | 3.6% | 4% | A |
| 401 | Piperton TN | 2,889 | $130K | 4.6% | 3.5% | 3% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 4,084 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Scott AFB, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
The towns next door employ 10% of Scott AFB
The biggest share goes to O'Fallon (5%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Scott AFB workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scott AFB | – | A | B+ | 14 min | $103,390 |
| Mascoutah Township | under 3% | — | — | 23 min | — |
| Shiloh | 2% | A | B+ | 25 min | $99,573 |
| Mascoutah | 3% | B+ | A− | 24 min | $97,375 |
| O'Fallon | 5% | A | A− | 25 min | $105,982 |
Same-state neighbors only. Mascoutah Township: not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Scott AFB’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 Scott AFB: questions
What is the median household income in Scott AFB?
$103,390 (±$14,733) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Scott AFB?
5.7%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Scott AFB?
14 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Scott AFB work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Belleville (11%, 8 mi), St. Louis (10%, 22 mi), O'Fallon (5%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Scott AFB walkable?
Scott AFB is more walkable than 68% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 6.3 out of 20, and 8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Scott AFB without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Scott AFB, from the people who make the trip.
More of Scott AFB
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.