Buckhart Township has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
224 jobs are based in Buckhart Township; 720 of its residents have a job. For jobs and income Buckhart Township is better than 62% of U.S. towns (B); for walkability it is more walkable than 24% of U.S. towns (C−). 8% of workers work from home; Illinois has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Buckhart Township and work: the main findings
Buckhart Township and Springfield trade workers both ways
Springfield is the top workplace for Buckhart Township residents (29%) and also where the most people who work in Buckhart Township come from (13% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Commutes from Buckhart Township are quick
The average trip to work takes 21 minutes, against 28 across Illinois. That’s about 54 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; with 720 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The figures behind Buckhart Township’s Jobs & income grade
Household income holds Buckhart Township’s grade up ($97,746, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down (4.6%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on the poverty rate.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Buckhart Township could be anywhere from C to A.
29% of working residents work in Springfield
Where Buckhart Township clocks in
29% of workers
8% 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 commute of about 21 minutes in Buckhart Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Buckhart Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 921 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.
How many people are in Buckhart Township by day
On a workday 686 residents head out to work, 34 work right here, and 190 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Buckhart Township on a workday afternoon, 29% 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.
Jobs in Buckhart Township: what the 224 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Buckhart Township, 2013 → 2023: 105 → 224. 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 Buckhart Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where in the region Buckhart Township works
About 28% 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 Buckhart Township: mostly by car
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 10.8% across Illinois, on an EPA index of 5.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,000 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). 2.1% of Buckhart Township households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Buckhart Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Buckhart Township places 1,546th of 5,760 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
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| 24 | Tower Lakes IL | 1,201 | $154K | 2.0% | 2.8% | <1% | A+ |
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| 34 | Bannockburn IL | 1,308 | $214K | 5.1% | 1.8% | 5% | A+ |
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| 39 | Prestbury IL | 2,045 | $165K | 1.9% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
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| 1,544 | Clay Township OH | 1,518 | $69K | 0.5% | 2.8% | 2% | B |
| 1,545 | South Greensburg PA | 2,073 | $64K | 6.3% | 4.3% | 6% | B |
| 1,546 | Buckhart Township IL | 1,730 | $98K | 7.8% | 4.6% | 5% | B |
| 1,547 | Ervin Township IN | 2,113 | $120K | 3.4% | 6.8% | 3% | B |
| 1,548 | Augusta Township OH | 1,470 | $84K | 6.9% | 6.0% | 1% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 5,760 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | 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 Buckhart Township, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
Buckhart Township and its neighbors
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Buckhart Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buckhart Township | – | B | C− | 21 min | $97,746 |
| South Fork Township | under 1% | C+ | C− | 25 min | $76,354 |
| Mount Auburn Township | under 1% | — | — | 31 min | — |
| Cooper Township | under 1% | — | — | 33 min | — |
| Taylorville Township | under 1% | — | — | 20 min | — |
| Stonington Township | under 1% | — | — | 22 min | — |
| Cotton Hill Township | under 1% | — | — | 56 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Mount Auburn Township, Cooper Township and Stonington Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Taylorville Township and Cotton Hill Township: not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Buckhart 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 Buckhart Township: questions
What is the median household income in Buckhart Township?
$97,746 (±$25,768) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Buckhart Township?
7.8%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Buckhart Township?
21 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Buckhart Township work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Springfield (29%, 19 mi), Decatur (11%, 25 mi), Taylorville (8%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Buckhart Township walkable?
Buckhart Township is more walkable than 24% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 5.0 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Buckhart Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Buckhart Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Buckhart 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.