Photo: Skvader · CC BY-SA 4.0Most of Bement Township commutes out: there are 0.4 jobs for every working resident
339 jobs are based in Bement Township, against 811 working residents. About one in ten work in Bement Township itself; outside it, Monticello draws the most (12%, 8 miles). For 7% of workers, the job is at home, next to 16% for Illinois as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Bement Township at work: what stands out
Bement Township works in goods: 47% of its jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bement Township, 2013 → 2023: 322 → 339. 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 Bement Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A workday in Bement Township: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 745 residents head out to work, 66 work right here, and 273 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Bement Township on a workday afternoon, 29% 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.
The towns that employ Bement Township’s residents
Where Bement Township clocks in
12% of workers
9% 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.
A commute of about 24 minutes in Bement Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bement Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,011 commuters (the 7% 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.
Miles to work from Bement Township
About 23% 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.
Bement Township and its neighbors
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Bement Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bement Township | – | — | — | 24 min | $79,167 |
| Monticello Township | under 3% | — | — | 23 min | — |
| Unity Township | under 3% | B− | C | 33 min | $80,536 |
| Cerro Gordo Township | under 3% | B− | C− | 23 min | $86,193 |
| Sadorus Township | under 3% | — | — | 21 min | — |
| Willow Branch Township | under 3% | — | — | 21 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Monticello Township: not graded. Sadorus Township and Willow Branch Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Bement 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 Bement Township: questions
What is the median household income in Bement Township?
$79,167 (±$12,270) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bement Township?
7.5%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bement Township?
24 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bement Township work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Monticello (12%, 8 mi), Champaign (9%, 19 mi), Bement (8%, 2 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Bement Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bement Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bement 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.