Photo: Kepper66 · CC BY-SA 3.0Earning a living in Bishop Hill
Working from home is the commute for 4% of workers (Illinois 16%). Hardly any work in Bishop Hill itself; outside it, Woodhull draws the most (9%, 11 miles). A typical one-way commute lasts 34 minutes, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Bishop Hill by day and by night
On a workday 55 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 33 people come in from elsewhere.
About 90 people are in Bishop Hill on a workday afternoon, 20% fewer than live here.
0.60 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
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 places Bishop Hill commutes to
Where Bishop Hill clocks in
9% of workers
7% 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 33 jobs based in Bishop Hill
33 jobs are based in Bishop Hill.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bishop Hill, 2013 → 2023: 44 → 33. 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 Bishop Hill’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Bishop Hill takes about 34 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bishop Hill workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 52 commuters (the 4% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Bishop Hill
About 19% 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.
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 Bishop Hill: questions
What is the median household income in Bishop Hill?
$56,429 (±$19,574) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bishop Hill?
9.0%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bishop Hill?
34 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bishop Hill work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Woodhull (9%, 11 mi), East Moline (9%, 26 mi), Davenport (7%, 35 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Bishop Hill without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bishop Hill, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bishop Hill
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.