Woodhull at work: jobs, income and the commute
A typical one-way commute lasts 24 minutes, where Illinois has 28 and the U.S. 26. Working from home is the commute for 6% of workers; Illinois has 16%. About one in ten stay in Woodhull for work; outside it, Galesburg is the main destination (9%, 16 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Woodhull: the figures worth knowing
Goods jobs make up 41% of work in Woodhull
300 jobs are based in Woodhull.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Woodhull, 2014 → 2024: 313 → 300. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Woodhull’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily flow of workers through Woodhull
On a workday 299 residents head out to work, 28 work right here, and 272 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.92 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Commuting out of Woodhull: the destinations
Where Woodhull clocks in
9% of workers
8% 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.
A commute of about 24 minutes in Woodhull
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Woodhull workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 369 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.
Half of Woodhull commutes less than 23 miles
About 23% 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 2024.
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 2024, 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 Woodhull: questions
What is the median household income in Woodhull?
$65,893 (±$11,288) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Woodhull?
13.3%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Woodhull?
24 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Woodhull work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Galesburg (9%, 16 mi), Davenport (8%, 30 mi), Moline (5%, 23 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Woodhull without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Woodhull, from the people who make the trip.
More of Woodhull
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.