Clayville Tavern · Photo: Boscophotos · CC BY-SA 3.0Work means Springfield for about half of Cartwright Township’s working residents
Household incomes here are higher than in 78% of U.S. towns. For jobs and income Cartwright Township is better than 80% of U.S. towns (A−); for walkability it is more walkable than 49% of U.S. towns (B−). 8% of workers work from home (Illinois 16%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Cartwright Township in brief
Jobs & income in Cartwright Township: the grade in detail
The poverty rate holds Cartwright Township’s grade up (2.5%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 39% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (3.4%) is left out: Cartwright Township’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, Cartwright Township could be anywhere from B+ to A.
Commuting out of Cartwright Township: the destinations
Where Cartwright Township clocks in
49% of workers
3% 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.
Who commutes out of Cartwright Township, and who commutes in
On a workday 599 residents head out to work, 23 work right here, and 329 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Cartwright Township on a workday afternoon, 18% fewer than live here.
0.57 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.
What work there is in Cartwright Township: 352 jobs
352 jobs are based in Cartwright Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cartwright Township, 2013 → 2023: 246 → 352. 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 Cartwright Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Cartwright Township: about 25 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cartwright Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 524 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.
Miles to work from Cartwright Township
About 24% 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 Cartwright Township, work means a drive
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 10.8% across Illinois, on an EPA index of 6.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 571 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). 1.1% of Cartwright Township households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Cartwright Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Cartwright Township is 627th among 6,308 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 2,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
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| 32 | Tower Lakes IL | 1,201 | $154K | 2.0% | 2.8% | <1% | A+ |
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| 35 | Third Lake IL | 1,103 | $150K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 40 | Lily Lake IL | 1,073 | $140K | 0.2% | 8.9% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 625 | Danvers IL | 1,062 | $89K | 4.8% | 1.8% | 2% | A− |
| 626 | Avalon NJ | 1,205 | $139K | 4.8% | 3.9% | 18% | A− |
| 627 | Cartwright Township IL | 1,490 | $101K | 2.5% | 3.4% | 4% | A− |
| 628 | Kindred ND | 1,044 | $105K | 3.5% | 1.6% | 9% | A− |
| 629 | Township 6 NE | 1,587 | $95K | 4.2% | 0.0% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 6,308 | 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 Cartwright Township, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
Work in the towns next to Cartwright Township
The biggest share goes to Gardner Township (2%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Cartwright Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cartwright Township | – | A− | B− | 25 min | $100,982 |
| Island Grove Township | under 1% | — | — | 24 min | — |
| Gardner Township | 2% | A− | D | 19 min | $103,932 |
Same-state neighbors only. Island Grove Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Cartwright 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 Cartwright Township: questions
What is the median household income in Cartwright Township?
$100,982 (±$14,453) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cartwright Township?
2.5%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cartwright Township?
25 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cartwright Township work?
4% work in town.
Is Cartwright Township walkable?
Cartwright Township is more walkable than 49% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 6.0 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Cartwright Township without a car?
0% 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 Cartwright Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cartwright 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.