Boone TownshipIL
A town of 2,030.
Is Boone Township a good place to live?
Boone Township’s best subject grades are a B for cost of living and health; its weakest is a C for walkability. On hazard risk, just 118 of Illinois’ 1,285 towns do better. Boone Township’s median age is 30 years, below both Illinois’ towns (40.7 years) and U.S. towns (40.5 years). Boone Township's civic life (library use, community groups, volunteering) trails 80% of U.S. towns. Boone Township has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes Boone Township stand out
Where Boone Township beats most towns.
97% of working residents leave Boone Township for work
Where Boone Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Boone Township grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Illinois), ordered by how far Boone Township is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Moving to Boone Township: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Boone Township, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Sep 12, 2025.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Boone Township.
With 0.3 jobs for every working resident, most of Boone Township’s workers commute out
Most working residents leave Boone Township for work: only 3% work in town. Jobs based in Boone Township grew to 240 in 2023, 57 more than in 2013. Boone Township’s average trip to work is 29 minutes, against 26 minutes in Illinois’ towns and 25 minutes across U.S. towns.
| Boone Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 29 minutes | 26 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $98,000 | $83,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 3% | 8.3% | 8% |
| Below the poverty line | 6.9% | 8.4% | 9.6% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
On state tests, Boone Township’s schools beat 53% of Illinois districts
Its public schools are run by North Boone CUSD 200. Its one school is below.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Capron Elem SchoolLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–4 | Grades PK–4 | 162 | C− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within IL on state tests and graduation
Low risk in Boone Township, with inland flooding at the top
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 77% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
In Boone Township, expect four seasons and pleasant summers
Boone Township has cold, snowy winters and pleasant summers. July afternoons reach 83°, January nights drop to 13° and about 32 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Boone Township is healthier than 61% of U.S. towns
Boone Township tracks Illinois closely on all 32 CDC measures. 19% of adults binge drink in Boone Township.
| Boone Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 18% | 16% |
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 11% | 7.9% | 8.1% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 77% | 78% | 79% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 33% | 35% | 35% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
| Boone Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conserved land | 1.3% | 3.7% | 4.3% |
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.4 miles per square mile | 0.3 | 0.4 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Illinois Railway Museum and 17 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Boone Township. Close and well known come first.
15 mi MuseumIllinois Railway Museum
30 mi TheatreAlpine Valley Music Theatre
20 mi Stadium & arenaBMO Center
17 mi GardenAnderson Japanese Gardens29 mi MuseumVolo Auto Museum
31 mi Theme parkSanta's Village Amusement & Water ParkPhoto credits
Illinois Railway Museum: The original uploader was Slambo at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 2.0 · Alpine Valley Music Theatre: chad davis, CC BY-SA 2.0 · BMO Center: SimLibrarian, CC0 · Anderson Japanese Gardens: M. Readey, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Santa's Village Amusement & Water Park: Martin Lewison from The Hague, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands, CC BY-SA 2.0
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Everything we know about Boone Township
Colleges nearby
2 within 15 miles of the center of Boone Township
About 3 of every 100 Boone Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Illinois.
About Boone Township
Township in Illinois, United States
Boone Township is one of nine townships in Boone County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2020 census, its population was 1,993 and it contained 726 housing units.
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- Area
- 24 sq mi
- Elevation
- 896 ft
Boone Township’s neighbors
3 towns share a border with Boone Township.
| Town | IL rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boone Township | — | — | B | — | B− | B |
| Poplar Grove Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Dunham Township | #491 | B− | B | — | D | B− |
| LeRoy Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Boone Township has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Boone Township and Dunham Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Poplar Grove Township and LeRoy Township aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Boone Township with a neighbor →
Questions about Boone Township
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Boone Township, IL expensive?
Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B.