Alhambra Township has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
Only 4% work in Alhambra Township; the top destination outside it is Highland (9%, 8 miles). Alhambra Township has 256 jobs, against 618 working residents. Jobs and income earn Alhambra Township B+; getting around on foot earns it B−.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Inside Alhambra Township’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Alhambra Township is better than 66% of U.S. towns. Household income is its strongest input ($94,271, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (9.1%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
Unemployment (2.8%) is left out: Alhambra Township’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, Alhambra Township could be anywhere from B− to A−.
Alhambra Township by day and by night
On a workday 596 residents head out to work, 22 work right here, and 234 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Alhambra Township on a workday afternoon, 23% 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.
Where people from Alhambra Township work
Where Alhambra Township clocks in
8% of workers
8% 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.
Jobs in Alhambra Township: what the 256 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Alhambra Township, 2013 → 2023: 261 → 256. 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 Alhambra Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Alhambra Township: about 27 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Alhambra Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 647 commuters (the 9% 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 distance from Alhambra Township to work
About 16% 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 Alhambra Township, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Alhambra Township is more walkable than 53% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.7% 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 712 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 3.1% of Alhambra Township households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Alhambra Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Alhambra Township next to U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,100: 1,297th of 5,794 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 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
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| 26 | Tower Lakes IL | 1,201 | $154K | 2.0% | 2.8% | <1% | A+ |
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| 29 | Third Lake IL | 1,103 | $150K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 39 | Bannockburn IL | 1,308 | $214K | 5.1% | 1.8% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,295 | Grabill IN | 1,168 | $67K | 5.6% | 2.5% | 5% | B+ |
| 1,296 | Manchester MI | 2,027 | $88K | 7.3% | 3.7% | 7% | B+ |
| 1,297 | Alhambra Township IL | 1,583 | $94K | 9.1% | 2.8% | 4% | B+ |
| 1,298 | Sandia Knolls NM | 1,445 | $92K | 4.5% | 3.8% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,299 | Pelham MA | 1,308 | $114K | 10.3% | 6.6% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,794 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Alhambra Township, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
Work in the towns next to Alhambra Township
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Alhambra Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alhambra Township | – | B+ | B− | 27 min | $94,271 |
| Leef Township | under 2% | — | — | 26 min | — |
| Olive Township | under 2% | B− | D | 32 min | $71,844 |
| Hamel Township | under 2% | A+ | D | 27 min | $124,643 |
| Marine Township | under 2% | A | C− | 27 min | $98,194 |
Same-state neighbors only. Leef Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Alhambra Township’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Alhambra Township: questions
What is the median household income in Alhambra Township?
$94,271 (±$15,859) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Alhambra Township?
9.1%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Alhambra Township?
27 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Alhambra Township work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Highland (9%, 8 mi), Edwardsville (8%, 14 mi), St. Louis (8%, 31 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Alhambra Township walkable?
Alhambra Township is more walkable than 53% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 6.1 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Alhambra Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Alhambra Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Alhambra Township
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.