With 0.4 jobs for every working resident, most of Brown Township works elsewhere
334 jobs are based in Brown Township, and 867 of its residents work somewhere. The two grades for Brown Township are A− for jobs and income and C for walkability. About one in ten work in Brown Township; the top destination outside it is Champaign (25%, 17 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Brown Township in brief
What’s behind Brown Township’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Brown Township is better than 78% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Brown Township’s grade up (2.1%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 40% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (1.6%) is left out: Brown 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, Brown Township could be anywhere from B+ to A−.
Jobs in Brown Township: what the 334 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Brown Township, 2013 → 2023: 293 → 334. 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 Brown Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who works in Brown Township, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 794 residents head out to work, 73 work right here, and 261 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,600 people are in Brown Township on a workday afternoon, 25% 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.
Commuting out of Brown Township: the destinations
Where Brown Township clocks in
25% of workers
12% of workers
7% 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.
Each way, about 28 minutes from Brown Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Brown Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 695 commuters (the 15% 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 Brown Township goes to work
About 19% 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.
Getting around Brown Township: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Brown Township is more walkable than 33% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Brown 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 816 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). 0.0% of Brown Township households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Brown Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,500 to 2,900, Brown Township ranks 822nd of 5,404 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 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 30 | Prestbury IL | 2,045 | $165K | 1.9% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 32 | Port Barrington IL | 1,584 | $150K | 2.7% | 2.9% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 820 | Liberty Township OH | 2,464 | $113K | 9.5% | 2.5% | 2% | A− |
| 821 | Winneconne WI | 2,498 | $82K | 5.4% | 2.7% | 13% | A− |
| 822 | Brown Township IL | 2,112 | $91K | 2.1% | 1.6% | 8% | A− |
| 823 | Garden Township KS | 2,713 | $86K | 4.2% | 1.8% | 4% | A− |
| 824 | Chichester NH | 2,834 | $109K | 6.0% | 2.2% | 5% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,404 | 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 Brown Township, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
How Brown Township compares with the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Fisher (7%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Brown Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown Township | – | A− | C | 28 min | $91,429 |
| East Bend Township | under 2% | — | — | 39 min | — |
| Bellflower Township | under 2% | — | — | 28 min | — |
| Drummer Township | under 2% | D | C | 17 min | $51,497 |
| Fisher | 7% | A− | D | 30 min | $97,702 |
Same-state neighbors only. East Bend Township and Bellflower Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Brown 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 Brown Township: questions
What is the median household income in Brown Township?
$91,429 (±$13,488) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Brown Township?
2.1%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Brown Township?
28 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 15% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Brown Township work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Champaign (25%, 17 mi), Urbana (12%, 19 mi), Fisher (7%, 3 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Brown Township walkable?
Brown Township is more walkable than 33% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 6.2 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Brown Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Brown Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Brown 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.