With 0.2 jobs for every working resident, most of Blue Ridge Township works elsewhere
Jobs and income earn Blue Ridge Township B+; getting around on foot earns it B+. There are 114 jobs in Blue Ridge Township for 617 working residents. For 6% of workers, the job is at home, where Illinois as a whole has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Blue Ridge Township, in a few figures
What’s behind Blue Ridge Township’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Blue Ridge Township is better than 67% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Blue Ridge Township’s grade up (6.6%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 49% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (1.7%) is left out: Blue Ridge 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, Blue Ridge Township could be anywhere from B− to A−.
Who leaves Blue Ridge Township for work, and who comes in
On a workday 607 residents head out to work, 10 work right here, and 104 people come in from elsewhere.
About 880 people are in Blue Ridge Township on a workday afternoon, 36% 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.
25% of working residents work in Champaign
Where Blue Ridge Township clocks in
25% of workers
10% 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.
Jobs in Blue Ridge Township: what the 114 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Blue Ridge Township, 2013 → 2023: 115 → 114. 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 Blue Ridge Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 25 minutes to work from Blue Ridge 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 Blue Ridge Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 657 commuters (the 6% 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 Blue Ridge Township goes to work
About 26% 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 Blue Ridge Township, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Blue Ridge Township is more walkable than 68% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 10.8% across Illinois, on an EPA index of 7.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 697 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). 0.5% of Blue Ridge Township households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Blue Ridge Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Blue Ridge Township ranks: 1,190th of 5,877 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900
| # | 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+ |
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| 29 | Tower Lakes IL | 1,201 | $154K | 2.0% | 2.8% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 32 | Third Lake IL | 1,103 | $150K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 37 | Lily Lake IL | 1,073 | $140K | 0.2% | 8.9% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,188 | Brookfield Center OH | 1,216 | $61K | 4.2% | 3.5% | 3% | B+ |
| 1,189 | Fritch TX | 1,751 | $89K | 5.2% | 2.8% | 4% | B+ |
| 1,190 | Blue Ridge Township IL | 1,379 | $87K | 6.6% | 1.7% | 2% | B+ |
| 1,191 | Pemberton NJ | 1,406 | $91K | 14.5% | 8.1% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,192 | New Hartford NY | 1,842 | $83K | 9.5% | 2.6% | 8% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | 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 Blue Ridge Township, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
Work in the towns next to Blue Ridge Township
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Blue Ridge Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Ridge Township | – | B+ | B+ | 25 min | $86,705 |
| Santa Anna Township | under 2% | C+ | C+ | 27 min | $72,917 |
| Bellflower Township | under 2% | — | — | 28 min | — |
| Sangamon Township | under 2% | A | C | 24 min | $120,771 |
| Goose Creek Township | under 2% | — | — | 23 min | — |
| Mahomet Township | under 2% | A | C | 20 min | $115,615 |
Same-state neighbors only. Bellflower Township and Goose Creek Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Blue Ridge 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 Blue Ridge Township: questions
What is the median household income in Blue Ridge Township?
$86,705 (±$9,825) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Blue Ridge Township?
6.6%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Blue Ridge Township?
25 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Blue Ridge Township work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Champaign (25%, 16 mi), Urbana (10%, 20 mi), Monticello (9%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Blue Ridge Township walkable?
Blue Ridge Township is more walkable than 68% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 7.0 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Blue Ridge Township without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Blue Ridge Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Blue Ridge 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.