Photo: David Wilson from Oak Park, Illinois, USA · CC BY 2.0Wyanet has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
Home is the office for 4% of workers, against 16% across Illinois. 121 jobs are based in Wyanet, and 380 of its residents work somewhere. Only 3% work in Wyanet itself; outside it, Princeton draws the most (18%, 6 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Wyanet: the gist
Wyanet and Princeton trade workers both ways
Princeton is the top workplace for Wyanet residents (18%) and also where the most people who work in Wyanet come from (17% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Few Wyanet workers work from home
Only 4% of workers work from home, against 16% across Illinois. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
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 380 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Wyanet goes to work
Where Wyanet clocks in
18% 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.
About 25 minutes each way, quicker than most of Illinois
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Wyanet workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 499 commuters (the 4% 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.
The workday shuffle in and out of Wyanet
On a workday 370 residents head out to work, 10 work right here, and 111 people come in from elsewhere.
About 600 people are in Wyanet on a workday afternoon, 30% 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 kinds of work in Wyanet
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Wyanet, 2013 → 2023: 97 → 121. 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 Wyanet’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Near or far: the trip to work from Wyanet
About 28% 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 Wyanet: questions
What is the median household income in Wyanet?
$63,295 (±$11,623) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Wyanet?
13.5%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Wyanet?
25 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Wyanet work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Princeton (18%, 6 mi), Peoria (4%, 42 mi), Spring Valley (3%, 21 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Wyanet without a car?
0% 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 Wyanet, from the people who make the trip.
More of Wyanet
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.