Buckheart Township has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.5 for each
4% of workers work from home, next to 16% for Illinois as a whole. 231 jobs are based in Buckheart Township, against 506 working residents. The two grades for Buckheart Township are C− for jobs and income and C for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Buckheart Township in brief
Buckheart Township and Canton trade workers both ways
Canton is the top workplace for Buckheart Township residents (25%) and also where the most people who work in Buckheart Township come from (21% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Few Buckheart Township workers work from home
Only 4% of workers work from home, against 16% across Illinois. Almost everyone here travels to a job. 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 506 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Inside Buckheart Township’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Buckheart Township is better than 22% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Buckheart Township’s grade.
Unemployment (2.7%) is left out: Buckheart 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, Buckheart Township could be anywhere from D to B−.
25% of working residents work in Canton
Where Buckheart Township clocks in
25% of workers
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.
Each way, about 26 minutes from Buckheart Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Buckheart Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 612 commuters (the 4% 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 Buckheart Township by day
On a workday 493 residents head out to work, 13 work right here, and 218 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,400 people are in Buckheart Township on a workday afternoon, 16% 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.
What Buckheart Township’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Buckheart Township, 2013 → 2023: 79 → 231. 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 Buckheart Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Miles to work from Buckheart Township
About 26% 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.
For most of Buckheart Township, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Buckheart Township is more walkable than 29% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 10.8% across Illinois, on an EPA index of 3.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 638 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). 1.0% of Buckheart Township households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Buckheart Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
3,918th of 5,760: where Buckheart Township ranks 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 39 | Prestbury IL | 2,045 | $165K | 1.9% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,916 | Silver Bay MN | 1,767 | $69K | 9.9% | 2.8% | 30% | C− |
| 3,917 | Choteau MT | 1,825 | $52K | 5.7% | 0.7% | 36% | C− |
| 3,918 | Buckheart Township IL | 1,675 | $61K | 13.7% | 2.7% | 3% | C− |
| 3,919 | Damariscotta ME | 2,296 | $59K | 11.9% | 8.3% | 23% | C− |
| 3,920 | Brownfield ME | 1,704 | $61K | 8.1% | 8.3% | 3% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 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 Buckheart Township, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
25% of Buckheart Township works in a town next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Buckheart Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buckheart Township | – | C− | C | 26 min | $61,161 |
| Canton Township | under 2% | — | — | 21 min | — |
| Putman Township | under 2% | C− | B | 31 min | $66,125 |
| Banner Township | under 2% | — | — | 33 min | — |
| Liverpool Township | under 2% | — | — | 26 min | — |
| Canton | 25% | C− | B | 21 min | $53,254 |
Same-state neighbors only. Canton Township: not graded. Banner Township and Liverpool Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Canton. Darker towns draw more of Buckheart 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 Buckheart Township: questions
What is the median household income in Buckheart Township?
$61,161 (±$17,515) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Buckheart Township?
13.7%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Buckheart Township?
26 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Buckheart Township work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Canton (25%, 5 mi), Peoria (10%, 29 mi), Lewistown (6%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Buckheart Township walkable?
Buckheart Township is more walkable than 29% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 3.5 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Buckheart Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Buckheart Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Buckheart 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.