Bourbonnais Township has higher unemployment (5.5%) than 68% of U.S. towns
About one in four stay in Bourbonnais Township for work; outside it, Kankakee is the main destination (16%, 5 miles). Jobs and income earn Bourbonnais Township B−; getting around on foot earns it A−. For 8% 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
Bourbonnais Township and work: the main findings
Bourbonnais Township trades workers with the towns around it
Bourbonnais Township has about as many jobs (15,078) as working residents (17,429), but they are mostly different people: 12,850 residents leave for work each day while 10,499 people come in. Only 30% of the jobs in Bourbonnais Township are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Bourbonnais Township are quick
The average trip to work takes 23 minutes, against 28 across Illinois. That’s about 38 hours a year less on the road than the typical Illinois worker. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
What’s behind Bourbonnais Township’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Bourbonnais Township is better than 51% of U.S. towns, #497 of 768 in Illinois. Job access by car holds Bourbonnais Township’s grade up (ahead of 70% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down. It also does well on household income.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Bourbonnais Township could be anywhere from C+ to B.
Who leaves Bourbonnais Township for work, and who comes in
On a workday 12,850 residents head out to work, 4,579 work right here, and 10,499 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.87 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
About 23 minutes to work from Bourbonnais Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bourbonnais Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 18,018 commuters (the 8% 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.
Where the trip to work from Bourbonnais Township ends
Where Bourbonnais Township clocks in
16% of workers
12% 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.
What Bourbonnais Township’s employers do
15,078 jobs are based in Bourbonnais Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bourbonnais Township, 2013 → 2023: 16,754 → 15,078. 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 Bourbonnais Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The distance from Bourbonnais Township to work
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.
Bourbonnais Township is easy on foot, hard by bus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Bourbonnais Township is more walkable than 77% of U.S. towns, #300 of 768 in Illinois. Both inputs place Bourbonnais Township near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 19,643 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). 5.0% of Bourbonnais Township households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Bourbonnais Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
777th of 1,113: where Bourbonnais Township ranks among U.S. towns of 27,000 to 52,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Upper Dublin Township PA | 27,258 | $168K | 3.2% | 1.9% | 8% | A+ |
| 2 | McLean VA | 49,627 | $250K | 2.9% | 2.3% | 6% | A+ |
| 3 | Southlake TX | 31,175 | $250K | 1.5% | 2.7% | 11% | A+ |
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| 7 | West Deerfield Township IL | 32,111 | $205K | 2.7% | 2.7% | 9% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 15 | New Lenox IL | 28,893 | $141K | 1.5% | 2.9% | 9% | A+ |
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| 25 | Bartlett IL | 40,855 | $133K | 4.2% | 2.6% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 775 | Lawndale CA | 29,892 | $85K | 13.0% | 9.7% | 4% | B− |
| 776 | Vernon CT | 30,842 | $85K | 13.4% | 6.6% | 10% | B− |
| 777 | Bourbonnais Township IL | 38,541 | $76K | 10.0% | 5.5% | 26% | B− |
| 778 | Valparaiso IN | 35,177 | $70K | 14.9% | 3.6% | 30% | B− |
| 779 | Altamonte Springs FL | 48,000 | $64K | 11.9% | 5.1% | 7% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,113 | Bullhead City AZ | 43,987 | $51K | 18.7% | 11.5% | 26% | 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 Bourbonnais Township, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
The towns around Bourbonnais Township
The biggest share goes to Manteno Township (2%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Bourbonnais Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bourbonnais Township | – | B− | A− | 23 min | $76,228 |
| Limestone Township | under 1% | A− | D− | 23 min | $112,258 |
| Kankakee Township | under 1% | — | — | 22 min | — |
| Ganeer Township | under 1% | C− | B− | 25 min | $65,208 |
| Rockville Township | under 1% | — | — | 38 min | — |
| Manteno Township | 2% | A | B+ | 32 min | $92,476 |
Same-state neighbors only. Kankakee Township: not graded. Rockville Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Bourbonnais 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 Bourbonnais Township: questions
What is the median household income in Bourbonnais Township?
$76,228 (±$5,006) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bourbonnais Township?
10.0%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bourbonnais Township?
23 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bourbonnais Township work?
26% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Kankakee (16%, 5 mi), Bradley (12%, 1 mi), Bourbonnais (11%, 1 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Bourbonnais Township walkable?
Bourbonnais Township is more walkable than 77% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 7.8 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Bourbonnais Township without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bourbonnais Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bourbonnais 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.