Work means Peoria for about two in five of Brimfield Township’s working residents
Only 3% work in Brimfield Township; the top destination outside it is Peoria (40%, 18 miles). Jobs and income earn Brimfield Township B; getting around on foot earns it B. 9% of workers have no commute at all; Illinois has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Brimfield Township: the gist
Brimfield Township makes and builds things
44% of the jobs based in Brimfield Township are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Brimfield Township residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 24%. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 545 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The four measures behind Brimfield Township’s grade
On income, poverty and job access, Brimfield Township is better than 61% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Brimfield Township’s grade. It also does well on household income and the poverty rate.
Unemployment (7.4%) is left out: Brimfield Township’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Brimfield Township could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
The places Brimfield Township commutes to
Where Brimfield Township clocks in
6% 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.
A place that makes things: 44% of Brimfield Township’s jobs are in goods
461 jobs are based in Brimfield Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Brimfield Township, 2014 → 2024: 602 → 461. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Brimfield Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A workday in Brimfield Township: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 530 residents head out to work, 15 work right here, and 446 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 (0.85 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Each way, about 24 minutes from Brimfield Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Brimfield Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 407 commuters (the 9% 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.
Miles to work from Brimfield Township
About 25% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
For most of Brimfield Township, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Brimfield Township is more walkable than 57% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 10.8% across Illinois, on an EPA index of 6.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 447 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 7.0% of Brimfield Township households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Brimfield Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Brimfield Township ranks: 884th of 3,771 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500
| # | 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% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
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| 21 | Tower Lakes IL | 1,201 | $154K | 2.0% | 2.8% | 1% | A+ |
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| 23 | Third Lake IL | 1,103 | $150K | 2.0% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
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| 28 | Lily Lake IL | 1,073 | $140K | 0.2% | 8.9% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 882 | Bell Hill WA | 1,041 | $79K | 1.3% | 6.5% | <1% | B |
| 883 | Foxfire NC | 1,426 | $85K | 4.6% | 0.0% | 2% | B |
| 884 | Brimfield Township IL | 1,148 | $81K | 8.9% | 7.4% | 3% | B |
| 885 | Maple Hill Township KS | 1,172 | $96K | 7.0% | 3.7% | 1% | B |
| 886 | Gilmer Park IN | 1,055 | $77K | 10.7% | 2.5% | 0% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Brimfield Township, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
Work in the towns next to Brimfield Township
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Brimfield Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brimfield Township | – | B | B | 24 min | $81,250 |
| Jubilee Township | under 2% | A | C+ | 25 min | $125,347 |
| Elba Township | under 2% | — | — | 23 min | — |
| Millbrook Township | under 2% | — | — | 23 min | — |
| Elmwood Township | under 2% | B+ | B+ | 25 min | $90,649 |
Same-state neighbors only. Elba Township and Millbrook Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Brimfield 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 2024, 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 Brimfield Township: questions
What is the median household income in Brimfield Township?
$81,250 (±$15,346) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Brimfield Township?
8.9%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Brimfield Township?
24 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Brimfield Township work?
3% work in town.
Is Brimfield Township walkable?
Brimfield Township is more walkable than 57% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 6.0 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Brimfield Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Brimfield Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Brimfield Township
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.