Buckheart TownshipIL
A town of 1,675. Home to Spoon River College.
Is Buckheart Township a good place to live?
The best of Buckheart Township’s subject grades is an A for cost of living; the weakest is a C− for incomes. Among 769 Illinois towns, just 3 have a lower share of adults with a bachelor’s degree than Buckheart Township. Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 71% of U.S. towns. Buckheart Township is home to Spoon River College. Only 70 of Illinois’ 1,285 towns score lower on the outdoors. Buckheart Township has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes Buckheart Township stand out
Where Buckheart Township beats most towns.
Buckheart Township has grown 12% since 2010
1,484 counted in 2010 and 1,315 in 2020; an estimated 1,675 in 2025.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts · Census Bureau estimate, July 1, 2025
How Buckheart Township grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Illinois), ordered by how far Buckheart Township is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Moving to Buckheart Township: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Buckheart Township, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Sep 12, 2025.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Buckheart Township.
Buckheart Township has 0.5 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Most working residents leave Buckheart Township for work: only 3% work in town. 4.1% of Buckheart Township workers work from home, against 11% in Illinois’ towns and 11% across U.S. towns. Jobs based in Buckheart Township grew to 231 in 2023, 152 more than in 2013.
| Buckheart Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 4.1% | 11% | 11% |
| Below the poverty line | 14% | 8.4% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $61,000 | $83,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 2.6% | 8.3% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Residents of Buckheart Township are less healthy than 73% of U.S. towns
Buckheart Township beats the Illinois average on 0 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 12. 17% of Buckheart Township adults smoke cigarettes, where Illinois’ towns sit at 13% and U.S. towns at 14%. 39% of adults have high blood pressure in Buckheart Township.
| Buckheart Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 13% | 14% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 39% | 35% | 35% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 40% | 37% | 35% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 13% | 14% |
| What stands out | Buckheart Township | IL |
|---|---|---|
| More older adults who have lost all their teeth | 16.4% | 10.3% |
| More adults with COPD | 9.3% | 6.3% |
| More smokers | 17.4% | 12.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
In Buckheart Township, expect four seasons and pleasant summers
Buckheart Township has chilly winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 86°, January nights drop to 17° and about 14 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Inland flooding leads a moderate hazard risk in Buckheart Township
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 53% of U.S. communities. One flood insurance claim has been paid in Buckheart Township since 1980.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Buckheart Township has set aside 0% of its land for conservation
2.4 miles of trail in 0 parks and preserves. The trail density in Buckheart Township is 0.1 miles per square mile.
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about Buckheart Township
Colleges nearby
1 within 15 miles of the center of Buckheart Township
About 2 of every 100 Buckheart Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Illinois.
Spoon River College calls Buckheart Township home
About Buckheart Township
Township in Illinois, United States
Buckheart Township is one of twenty-six townships in Fulton County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2020 census, its population was 1,315 and it contained 725 housing units.
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- Area
- 36 sq mi
- Elevation
- 623 ft
Buckheart Township’s neighbors
5 towns share a border with Buckheart Township.
| Town | IL rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buckheart Township | — | — | A | — | C+ | C |
| Putman Township | — | — | A− | — | C− | C− |
| Banner Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Liverpool Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Canton · Canton Township | #619 | C | B+ | — | C+ | C |
Buckheart Township and Putman Township have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Buckheart Township, Putman Township and Canton report no FBI crime data of their own. Banner Township and Liverpool Township aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Canton Township and Canton are one community, graded once. Compare Buckheart Township with a neighbor →
Questions about Buckheart Township
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Buckheart Township, IL expensive?
Not for the area. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades A.