With 0.3 jobs for every working resident, most of St. Augustine works elsewhere
For 0% of workers, the job is at home (Illinois 16%). There are 12 jobs in St. Augustine, and 40 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any stay in St. Augustine for work; outside it, Abingdon is the main destination (15%, 6 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How many people are in St. Augustine by day
On a workday 40 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 12 people come in from elsewhere.
About 85 people are in St. Augustine on a workday afternoon, 25% 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 places St. Augustine commutes to
Where St. Augustine clocks in
15% of workers
13% 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.
St. Augustine is a services town
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in St. Augustine, 2013 → 2023: 1 → 12. 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 St. Augustine’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 34 minutes in St. Augustine
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of St. Augustine workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 26 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.
Short hops and long hauls from St. Augustine
About 40% 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 St. Augustine: questions
What is the poverty rate in St. Augustine?
23.9%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from St. Augustine?
34 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in St. Augustine work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Abingdon (15%, 6 mi), Peoria (15%, 41 mi), Galesburg (13%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around St. Augustine without a car?
4% of commuters take transit and 13% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from St. Augustine, from the people who make the trip.
More of St. Augustine
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.