Most of Sun River Terrace commutes out: there are 0.0 jobs for every working resident
6 jobs are based in Sun River Terrace; 200 of its residents have a job. Hardly any work in Sun River Terrace itself; outside it, Kankakee draws the most (20%, 7 miles). Working from home is the commute for 6% of workers, next to 16% for Illinois as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Sun River Terrace stands out on work
Sun River Terrace is a place people come home to
There are 6 jobs based in Sun River Terrace, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Sun River Terrace has about 290 people in it, 40% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
A big share show a job far from home
30% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
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 200 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Sun River Terrace quiets down on a workday
On a workday 200 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 6 people come in from elsewhere.
About 290 people are in Sun River Terrace on a workday afternoon, 40% 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.
How far Sun River Terrace’s workers travel
About 30% 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.
Where Sun River Terrace’s working residents head each day
Where Sun River Terrace clocks in
20% of workers
12% of workers
8% 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.
What Sun River Terrace’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Sun River Terrace, 2013 → 2023: 3 → 6. 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 Sun River Terrace’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 32 minutes to work from Sun River Terrace
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Sun River Terrace workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 192 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.
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 Sun River Terrace: questions
What is the median household income in Sun River Terrace?
$65,481 (±$37,918) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Sun River Terrace?
45.2%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Sun River Terrace?
32 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Sun River Terrace work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Kankakee (20%, 7 mi), Momence (12%, 5 mi), Chicago (8%, 49 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Sun River Terrace without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Sun River Terrace, from the people who make the trip.
More of Sun River Terrace
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.