F. D. Thomas House · Photo: Nyttend · Public domainCamp Point has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.5 for each
295 jobs are based in Camp Point, against 560 working residents. Camp Point grades C− for jobs and income and B for walkability. At home: 2% of workers have no commute at all (Illinois 16%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Camp Point: the figures worth knowing
Camp Point and Quincy trade workers both ways
Quincy is the top workplace for Camp Point residents (23%) and also where the most people who work in Camp Point come from (10% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Few Camp Point workers work from home
Only 2% of workers work from home, against 16% across Illinois. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
Commutes from Camp Point are quick
The average trip to work takes 23 minutes, against 28 across Illinois. That’s about 38 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 560 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Camp Point’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Camp Point is better than 17% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Camp Point’s grade.
Unemployment (2.3%) is left out: Camp Point’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, Camp Point could be anywhere from D to C+.
23% of working residents work in Quincy
Where Camp Point clocks in
23% 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.
Getting to work from Camp Point takes about 23 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Camp Point workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 534 commuters (the 2% 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 a workday changes Camp Point
On a workday 515 residents head out to work, 45 work right here, and 250 people come in from elsewhere.
About 850 people are in Camp Point on a workday afternoon, 24% 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 Camp Point’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Camp Point, 2013 → 2023: 335 → 295. 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 Camp Point’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many miles Camp Point commutes
About 27% 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.
Camp Point is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Camp Point is more walkable than 63% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 2.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 10.8% across Illinois.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 546 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). 7.7% of Camp Point households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Camp Point’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500, Camp Point ranks 2,683rd of 3,771 on jobs and income
| # | 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% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 21 | Tower Lakes IL | 1,201 | $154K | 2.0% | 2.8% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 23 | Third Lake IL | 1,103 | $150K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 28 | Lily Lake IL | 1,073 | $140K | 0.2% | 8.9% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,681 | Summerhill NY | 1,091 | $68K | 15.9% | 1.0% | <1% | C− |
| 2,682 | Conneaut Township PA | 1,307 | $58K | 10.8% | 0.7% | 2% | C− |
| 2,683 | Camp Point IL | 1,119 | $62K | 14.9% | 2.3% | 8% | C− |
| 2,684 | Sundown TX | 1,317 | $59K | 14.6% | 14.2% | 7% | C− |
| 2,685 | Kinmundy Township IL | 1,084 | $58K | 12.6% | 6.9% | 4% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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 Camp Point, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
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 Camp Point: questions
What is the median household income in Camp Point?
$62,188 (±$16,533) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Camp Point?
14.9%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Camp Point?
23 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Camp Point work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Quincy (23%, 18 mi), Mount Sterling (8%, 16 mi), Ellington Township (6%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Camp Point walkable?
Camp Point is more walkable than 63% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 8.2 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Camp Point without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Camp Point, from the people who make the trip.
More of Camp Point
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.