Photo: Nyttend · Public domainBarry Township has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.5 for each
Barry Township has 359 jobs, against 715 working residents. The two grades for Barry Township are C for jobs and income and C for walkability. 5% of workers work from home; Illinois has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Barry Township: the gist
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Barry Township
On income, poverty and job access, Barry Township is better than 26% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Barry Township’s grade up ($76,696, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 19% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (5.3%) is left out: Barry 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, Barry Township could be anywhere from D to C+.
How many miles Barry Township commutes
About 37% 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.
A workday in Barry Township: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 616 residents head out to work, 99 work right here, and 260 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Barry 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 Barry Township goes to work
Where Barry Township clocks in
16% of workers
13% of workers
12% 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.
The kinds of work in Barry Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Barry Township, 2013 → 2023: 427 → 359. 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 Barry Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 25 minutes to work from Barry Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Barry Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 674 commuters (the 5% 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.
Barry Township is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Barry Township is more walkable than 31% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 10.8% across Illinois.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 710 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). 1.6% of Barry Township households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Barry Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Barry Township is 3,679th of 5,794 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,100 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,677 | North Charleroi PA | 1,283 | $51K | 20.2% | 7.7% | 2% | C |
| 3,678 | Wysox Township IL | 1,296 | $67K | 12.1% | 4.7% | 8% | C |
| 3,679 | Barry Township IL | 1,553 | $77K | 14.9% | 5.3% | 14% | C |
| 3,680 | Greenwood Township MI | 1,473 | $83K | 14.0% | 5.5% | 2% | C |
| 3,681 | Lisbon NH | 1,626 | $66K | 8.6% | 1.8% | 14% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 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 Barry Township, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
Barry Township and the towns next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Barry Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barry Township | – | C | C | 25 min | $76,696 |
| Kinderhook Township | under 2% | — | — | 27 min | — |
| Hadley Township | under 2% | — | — | 41 min | — |
| Richfield Township | under 2% | — | — | 36 min | — |
| Pleasant Vale Township | under 2% | — | — | 28 min | — |
| Beverly Township | under 2% | — | — | 33 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Kinderhook Township, Hadley Township, Richfield Township, Pleasant Vale Township and Beverly Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Barry 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 Barry Township: questions
What is the median household income in Barry Township?
$76,696 (±$12,160) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Barry Township?
14.9%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Barry Township?
25 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Barry Township work?
14% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Quincy (16%, 22 mi), Barry (13%, 3 mi), Springfield (12%, 77 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Barry Township walkable?
Barry Township is more walkable than 31% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 6.8 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Barry Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Barry Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Barry 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.