Few U.S. towns have unemployment as high as Boone Township’s 19.4%
Boone Township grades B− for jobs and income and C for walkability. At home: 6% of workers have no commute at all (Illinois 16%). Measured by household income, Boone Township is ahead of 76% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Boone Township apart on work
Why Boone Township gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Boone Township is better than 54% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Boone Township’s grade up ($98,438, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down. It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Boone Township could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
In and out of Boone Township on a workday
On a workday 772 residents head out to work, 24 work right here, and 216 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,500 people are in Boone Township on a workday afternoon, 27% fewer than live here.
0.30 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.
12% of working residents work in Rockford
Where Boone Township clocks in
12% of workers
7% of workers
5% 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.
Goods, not services: 56% of the jobs in Boone Township
240 jobs are based in Boone Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Boone Township, 2013 → 2023: 183 → 240. 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 Boone Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 29 minutes each way for Boone Township’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Boone Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 930 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Boone Township
About 22% 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.
Few in Boone Township walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Boone Township is more walkable than 30% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 10.8% across Illinois, on an EPA index of 4.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 993 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). 2.7% of Boone Township households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Boone Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Boone Township is 2,019th of 5,509 U.S. towns of 1,400 to 2,700 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 34 | Prestbury IL | 2,045 | $165K | 1.9% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 36 | Port Barrington IL | 1,584 | $150K | 2.7% | 2.9% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,017 | Balsam Lake WI | 1,430 | $89K | 6.9% | 2.2% | 1% | B− |
| 2,018 | Nellysford VA | 1,584 | $136K | 10.4% | 3.1% | 2% | B− |
| 2,019 | Boone Township IL | 2,030 | $98K | 6.9% | 19.4% | 3% | B− |
| 2,020 | Howard Township IN | 2,390 | $82K | 4.2% | 8.8% | 2% | B− |
| 2,021 | Berlin Township OH | 1,794 | $78K | 5.7% | 0.0% | <1% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,509 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Boone Township, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
Work in the towns next to Boone Township
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Boone Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boone Township | – | B− | C | 29 min | $98,438 |
| Poplar Grove Township | under 3% | — | — | 28 min | — |
| Dunham Township | under 3% | B | A | 27 min | $92,697 |
| LeRoy Township | under 3% | — | — | 27 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Poplar Grove Township: not graded. LeRoy Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Boone 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 Boone Township: questions
What is the median household income in Boone Township?
$98,438 (±$13,668) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Boone Township?
6.9%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Boone Township?
29 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Boone Township work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Rockford (12%, 18 mi), Belvidere (7%, 10 mi), Chicago (5%, 66 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Boone Township walkable?
Boone Township is more walkable than 30% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 4.5 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Boone 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 Boone Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Boone 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.