Albers has 0.5 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Albers has 240 jobs, and 474 of its residents work somewhere. Jobs and income earn Albers A−; getting around on foot earns it B−. Household incomes here are higher than in 83% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Albers and work: the main findings
Income, poverty and work: Albers’ grade explained
On income, poverty and job access, Albers is better than 79% of U.S. towns. Household income is its strongest input ($109,583, U.S. $80,734); job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 60% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
Unemployment (3.1%) is left out: Albers’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, Albers could be anywhere from B− to A+.
Where in the region Albers works
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.
How many people are in Albers by day
On a workday 464 residents head out to work, 10 work right here, and 230 people come in from elsewhere.
About 880 people are in Albers on a workday afternoon, 21% 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.
8% of working residents work in St. Louis
Where Albers clocks in
8% of workers
6% 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.
What Albers’ employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Albers, 2013 → 2023: 221 → 240. 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 Albers’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Albers, about 30 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Albers workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 666 commuters (the 10% 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.
Driving is how Albers gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Albers is more walkable than 49% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 10.8% across Illinois, on an EPA index of 6.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 744 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). 5.0% of Albers households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Albers’ commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500, Albers ranks 356th of 3,771 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 21 | Tower Lakes IL | 1,201 | $154K | 2.0% | 2.8% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 23 | Third Lake IL | 1,103 | $150K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 28 | Lily Lake IL | 1,073 | $140K | 0.2% | 8.9% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 354 | Richland Township IN | 1,289 | $84K | 3.9% | 6.4% | 1% | A− |
| 355 | Marcellon WI | 1,141 | $99K | 0.5% | 0.0% | 1% | A− |
| 356 | Albers IL | 1,114 | $110K | 7.2% | 3.1% | 2% | A− |
| 357 | Greensburg Township OH | 1,451 | $107K | 0.9% | 0.0% | 2% | A− |
| 358 | Springfield WI | 1,010 | $97K | 2.4% | 5.8% | <1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | 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 Albers, 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 Albers: questions
What is the median household income in Albers?
$109,583 (±$19,626) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Albers?
7.2%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Albers?
30 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Albers work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are St. Louis (8%, 34 mi), Belleville (6%, 20 mi), New Baden (5%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Albers walkable?
Albers is more walkable than 49% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 6.1 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Albers without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Albers, from the people who make the trip.
More of Albers
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.