Photo: Teemu008 from Palatine, Illinois · CC BY-SA 2.0Household incomes put Campton Hills near the very top of U.S. towns
The poverty rate is 2.9%, next to 11.8% for Illinois as a whole. Household incomes here are among the highest in the country. Campton Hills grades A for jobs and income and B for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Campton Hills at work: what stands out
Campton Hills’ biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Campton Hills is Chicago, 39 miles away as the crow flies. 12% of working residents (638) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Campton Hills is a place people come home to
There are 1,020 jobs based in Campton Hills, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Campton Hills has about 6,700 people in it, 39% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Campton Hills workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 34 minutes each way, against 28 across Illinois. Over a year that’s about 261 hours of commuting, 46 more than the state’s typical 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.
Income, poverty and work: Campton Hills’ grade explained
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Campton Hills is better than 90% of U.S. towns, #115 of 768 in Illinois. Household income holds Campton Hills’ grade up ($209,134, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down (5.0%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Campton Hills could be anywhere from A− to A+.
How far it is to work from Campton Hills
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.
How many people are in Campton Hills by day
On a workday 5,120 residents head out to work, 126 work right here, and 894 people come in from elsewhere.
About 6,700 people are in Campton Hills on a workday afternoon, 39% fewer than live here.
0.19 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
A commute of about 34 minutes in Campton Hills
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Campton Hills workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 4,142 commuters (the 21% 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.
12% of working residents work in Chicago
Where Campton Hills clocks in
12% of workers
9% 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.
What Campton Hills’ employers do
1,020 jobs are based in Campton Hills.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Campton Hills, 2013 → 2023: 793 → 1,020. 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 Campton Hills’s own residents hold wherever they work.
In Campton Hills, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Campton Hills is more walkable than 63% of U.S. towns, #446 of 768 in Illinois. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 10.8% across Illinois, on an EPA index of 6.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 5,233 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). 0.9% of Campton Hills households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Campton Hills’ commuters take a bus or train.
Campton Hills is 391st of 2,507 U.S. towns of 8,000 to 15,000 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Ladue MO | 8,934 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.7% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 7 | Long Grove IL | 8,343 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 17 | Riverside IL | 8,939 | $154K | 3.3% | 1.9% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 30 | Western Springs IL | 13,588 | $230K | 1.3% | 3.1% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 389 | Allouez WI | 13,838 | $91K | 5.1% | 2.0% | 5% | A |
| 390 | Aiea HI | 9,087 | $140K | 5.3% | 3.8% | 2% | A |
| 391 | Campton Hills IL | 10,894 | $209K | 2.9% | 5.0% | 2% | A |
| 392 | Cohasset MA | 8,461 | $199K | 3.0% | 4.6% | 10% | A |
| 393 | Bushkill Township PA | 8,739 | $121K | 4.1% | 3.1% | 6% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,507 | Roma TX | 11,543 | $25K | 37.1% | 12.4% | 22% | 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 Campton Hills, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
Campton Hills and its neighbors: 15% work next door
The biggest share goes to St. Charles (9%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Campton Hills workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Campton Hills | – | A | B | 34 min | $209,134 |
| Elgin | 6% | B | A | 28 min | $90,282 |
| Campton Township | under 2% | A | B | 32 min | $181,066 |
| St. Charles Township | under 2% | A | A− | 28 min | $128,204 |
| St. Charles | 9% | A | A− | 27 min | $114,300 |
| Plato Township | under 2% | A+ | C+ | 35 min | $154,851 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Campton Hills’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 Campton Hills: questions
What is the median household income in Campton Hills?
$209,134 (±$14,950) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Campton Hills?
2.9%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Campton Hills?
34 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 21% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Campton Hills work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Chicago (12%, 38 mi), St. Charles (9%, 6 mi), Elgin (6%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Campton Hills walkable?
Campton Hills is more walkable than 63% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 6.7 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Campton Hills without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Campton Hills, from the people who make the trip.
More of Campton Hills
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.