Photo: Nyttend · Public domainVienna has lower household incomes than 96% of U.S. towns
Below the poverty line: 33.6% of residents; Illinois has 11.8%. The two grades for Vienna are D− for jobs and income and C for walkability. Home is the office for 6% of workers; Illinois has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Vienna: the figures worth knowing
Commutes from Vienna are quick
The average trip to work takes 21 minutes, against 28 across Illinois. That’s about 54 hours a year less on the road than the typical Illinois worker. Time on the road ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Vienna than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Vienna fell from 906 in 2013 to 684 in 2023, −25%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. 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 486 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Vienna’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Vienna is better than 2% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Vienna’s grade up (ahead of 18% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down.
Unemployment (1.2%) is left out: Vienna’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Vienna could be anywhere from D− to D.
Commuting from Vienna: about 21 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Vienna workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 694 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 Vienna are in services
684 jobs are based in Vienna.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Vienna, 2013 → 2023: 906 → 684. 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 Vienna’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who works in Vienna, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 410 residents head out to work, 76 work right here, and 608 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,600 people are in Vienna on a workday afternoon, 15% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.41 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
7% of working residents work in Marion
Where Vienna clocks in
7% of workers
6% of workers
3% 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.
Half of Vienna commutes less than 24 miles
About 25% 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.
In Vienna, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Vienna is more walkable than 33% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 10.8% across Illinois.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 738 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 18.7% of Vienna households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Vienna’s commuters take a bus or train.
Vienna and other U.S. towns of 900 to 1,800
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 28 | Tower Lakes IL | 1,201 | $154K | 2.0% | 2.8% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 31 | Third Lake IL | 1,103 | $150K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 36 | Lily Lake IL | 1,073 | $140K | 0.2% | 8.9% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,155 | Waldo AR | 1,100 | $41K | 23.7% | 3.7% | 1% | D− |
| 5,156 | Enigma GA | 1,106 | $32K | 49.7% | 1.8% | <1% | D− |
| 5,157 | Vienna IL | 1,352 | $41K | 33.6% | 1.2% | 16% | D− |
| 5,158 | Horton KS | 1,460 | $41K | 22.4% | 5.9% | 16% | D− |
| 5,159 | Cloverport KY | 1,153 | $37K | 32.1% | 13.4% | 3% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Vienna, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
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 Vienna: questions
What is the median household income in Vienna?
$40,750 (±$13,920) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Vienna?
33.6%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Vienna?
21 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Vienna work?
16% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Marion (7%, 22 mi), Paducah (6%, 27 mi), Carbondale (3%, 28 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Vienna walkable?
Vienna is more walkable than 33% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 7.2 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Vienna without a car?
<1% 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 Vienna, from the people who make the trip.
More of Vienna
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.