Photo: Daniel Schwen · CC BY-SA 4.0Most of Seymour commutes out: there are 0.5 jobs for every working resident
Employers in Seymour report 77 jobs for 143 working residents. Hardly any work in Seymour; the top destination outside it is Champaign (43%, 8 miles). Home is the office for 0% of workers; Illinois has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who leaves Seymour for work, and who comes in
On a workday 143 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 77 people come in from elsewhere.
About 200 people are in Seymour on a workday afternoon, 24% 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.
The towns that employ Seymour’s residents
Where Seymour clocks in
43% of workers
20% of workers
6% 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.
Seymour is a services town
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Seymour, 2013 → 2023: 83 → 77. 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 Seymour’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Seymour
of Seymour workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 74 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.
Half of Seymour commutes less than 10 miles
About 17% 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 Seymour: questions
What is the median household income in Seymour?
$36,063 (±$17,840) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Seymour?
17.4%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Seymour work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Champaign (43%, 8 mi), Urbana (20%, 12 mi), Chicago (6%, 126 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Seymour without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 19% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Seymour, from the people who make the trip.
More of Seymour
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.