Photo: Boscophotos · CC BY-SA 3.0Assumption has 4.1 jobs for every working resident: 1,465 people commute in to work
1,492 jobs are based in Assumption for 362 working residents. Assumption grades C− for jobs and income and D for walkability. Household incomes here are lower than in 78% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Assumption: the figures worth knowing
Assumption fills up on a workday
Assumption has 1,492 jobs, 4.1 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 2,200 people are in town, more than double the 1,100 who live here. Day and night ↓
Assumption makes and builds things
82% of the jobs based in Assumption are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Assumption residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 22%. The jobs ↓
The jobs in Assumption pay better than its residents’ jobs
81% of the jobs based in Assumption pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), against 59% of the jobs Assumption residents hold. 98% of the jobs here are held by people who live outside Assumption. The jobs ↓
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 362 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Inside Assumption’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Assumption is better than 23% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Assumption’s grade up (11.7%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($57,500, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (9.2%) is left out: Assumption’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, Assumption could be anywhere from D to C+.
The daily commute in and out of Assumption
On a workday 335 residents head out to work and 27 work right here.
About 2,200 people are in Assumption on a workday afternoon, 102% more 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.
Factories, building and farms: 82% of the jobs in Assumption
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Assumption, 2013 → 2023: 1,853 → 1,492. 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 Assumption’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where the people who work in Assumption live
Where Assumption clocks in
11% of workers
9% 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 to work from Assumption
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Assumption workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 567 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.
How far Assumption’s workers travel
About 33% 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.
Getting around Assumption: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Assumption is more walkable than 7% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Assumption near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 632 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). 4.8% of Assumption households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Assumption’s commuters take a bus or train.
Assumption is 2,421st of 3,771 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,419 | Widner Township IN | 1,088 | $70K | 12.3% | 2.4% | 3% | C− |
| 2,420 | McKinley Heights OH | 1,366 | $39K | 19.6% | 16.8% | 1% | C− |
| 2,421 | Assumption IL | 1,112 | $58K | 11.7% | 9.2% | 7% | C− |
| 2,422 | Elroy WI | 1,255 | $58K | 10.1% | 0.7% | 10% | C− |
| 2,423 | Washington WI | 1,028 | $81K | 17.0% | 1.1% | <1% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 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 Assumption, 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 Assumption: questions
What is the median household income in Assumption?
$57,500 (±$12,071) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Assumption?
11.7%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Assumption?
25 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Assumption work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Pana (11%, 9 mi), Taylorville (9%, 15 mi), Decatur (9%, 24 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Assumption walkable?
Assumption is more walkable than 7% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.9 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Assumption 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 Assumption, from the people who make the trip.
More of Assumption
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.