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This information is
compiled from Census 2000 responses to the long-form (sample) questions on
where people worked. Data are available by county for residents of the 50
states and the District of Columbia. Here, of course, the emphasis
is on the six counties that comprise NIPC's service area in northeastern
Illinois.
The summary table below
presents information on how many workers lived in a particular county,
where they went to work, and (as a result of their commutes) how many
persons ended up working in each county during the 2000 Census reference
week. For instance, the census counted a total of 469,373 workers
living in DuPage County, 277,934 of which worked in their home county,
with another 152,433 commuting to work in Cook County. Altogether,
534,551 persons were working in DuPage County, meaning that in addition to
its homegrown work force, it was importing 256,617 other workers into the
county, or 48% of its total.
Overall, Will County had
the most nomadic resident workers among the six northeastern Illinois
counties. More than 134,000 workers living in the county, or 55.6% of the
total number of resident workers, commuted outside the county to work,
principally to the more job-rich counties of Cook and DuPage.
A total of 3,725,982
workers lived in the six counties of northeastern Illinois, with all but
68,230 (or 1.8%) working in the same six counties. On the other
hand, 189,909 workers living outside the six-county area commuted into the
area to work, accounting for 4.9% of all 3,847,661 persons at work in
northeastern Illinois during the census reference week.
According to the 2000
Census, 65.9% of the workers living in northeastern Illinois (2.46 million
out of 3.73 million) worked in Cook County. This was a drop-off from
71.5% in 1990, when the corresponding numbers were 2.49 million workers
out of 3.49 million.
An Excel workbook file
containing an expanded version of the table below and a similar table from the
1990 Census can be directly viewed or downloaded by
clicking here
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The U.S. Census Bureau's
March 6, 2003 news release on the county-to-county worker flow data can be
accessed by
clicking here. Worker flow data files for every state can be
downloaded from the Census Bureau's site by
clicking here.
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2000 Census: Worker Flows by County in Northeastern Illinois |
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Total |
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Works in: |
Works in: |
Works in: |
Works in: |
Works in: |
Works in: |
Works in: |
Works in: |
Resident |
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Lives in: |
Cook |
DuPage |
Kane |
Lake |
McHenry |
Will |
NE Illinois |
Other |
Workers |
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Cook |
2,077,798 |
146,135 |
18,345 |
64,253 |
5,182 |
24,432 |
2,336,145 |
35,016 |
2,371,161 |
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DuPage |
152,433 |
277,934 |
16,539 |
5,377 |
884 |
9,197 |
462,364 |
7,009 |
469,373 |
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Kane |
34,361 |
34,318 |
107,807 |
3,012 |
5,056 |
1,840 |
186,394 |
6,468 |
192,862 |
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Lake |
83,502 |
6,967 |
1,383 |
212,450 |
5,866 |
389 |
310,557 |
6,885 |
317,442 |
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McHenry |
31,337 |
4,650 |
8,877 |
16,731 |
68,108 |
343 |
130,046 |
3,211 |
133,257 |
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Will |
76,574 |
43,498 |
3,432 |
1,128 |
158 |
107,456 |
232,246 |
9,641 |
241,887 |
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2,456,005 |
513,502 |
156,383 |
302,951 |
85,254 |
143,657 |
3,657,752 |
68,230 |
3,725,982 |
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Some Other Place |
98,113 |
21,049 |
18,967 |
23,216 |
11,388 |
17,176 |
189,909 |
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Total Working in: |
2,554,118 |
534,551 |
175,350 |
326,167 |
96,642 |
160,833 |
3,847,661 |
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Source: U.S. Census Bureau |
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Internet Release date: March 6, 2003 |
Posted 03-10-03
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