Cherry Valley has 2.1 jobs for every working resident: 2,537 people commute in to work
Cherry Valley has 2,568 jobs, against 1,216 working residents. The two grades for Cherry Valley are B for jobs and income and B− for walkability. Home is the office for 7% of workers, against 16% across Illinois.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Cherry Valley
Much of Cherry Valley works one town over
49% of working residents work in a town that borders Cherry Valley: Rockford (41%), Belvidere (7%) and Cherry Valley Township (1%). Next door ↓
Stores, warehouses and trucking
56% of the jobs in Cherry Valley are in trade, transport and utilities, against 21% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
Cherry Valley is where the jobs are
Cherry Valley has 2,568 jobs, 2.1 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 4,200 people are in town, 47% more than the 2,900 who live here. Day and night ↓
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.
What’s behind Cherry Valley’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Cherry Valley is better than 57% of U.S. towns, #447 of 768 in Illinois. Job access by car holds Cherry Valley’s grade up (ahead of 77% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (5.4%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on the poverty rate.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Cherry Valley could be anywhere from C to A.
What Cherry Valley’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cherry Valley, 2013 → 2023: 2,746 → 2,568. 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 Cherry Valley’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Cherry Valley fills up on a workday
On a workday 1,185 residents head out to work and 31 work right here.
About 4,200 people are in Cherry Valley on a workday afternoon, 47% more 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.
Commuting in to Cherry Valley: where workers come from
Where Cherry Valley clocks in
41% of workers
7% 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.
About 24 minutes each way for Cherry Valley’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cherry Valley workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,564 commuters (the 7% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Cherry Valley
About 21% 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.
Few in Cherry Valley walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Cherry Valley is more walkable than 46% of U.S. towns, #570 of 768 in Illinois. Both inputs place Cherry Valley near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,674 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). 4.8% of Cherry Valley households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Cherry Valley’s commuters take a bus or train.
Cherry Valley next to U.S. towns of 2,000 to 3,900: 1,943rd of 4,882 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 23 | Deer Park IL | 3,647 | $174K | 1.3% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,941 | Stanley WI | 2,492 | $68K | 8.4% | 0.9% | 1% | B |
| 1,942 | Rock WI | 2,988 | $71K | 21.8% | 0.0% | 1% | B |
| 1,943 | Cherry Valley IL | 2,887 | $75K | 8.3% | 5.4% | 3% | B |
| 1,944 | Ossian IN | 3,448 | $72K | 6.7% | 4.8% | 9% | B |
| 1,945 | Collinsville TX | 2,076 | $60K | 11.5% | 0.7% | 2% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 4,882 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 12% | 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 Cherry Valley, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
49% of Cherry Valley works in a town next door
The biggest share goes to Rockford (41%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Cherry Valley workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cherry Valley | – | B | B− | 24 min | $74,655 |
| Rockford | 41% | C− | B | 22 min | $54,752 |
| Belvidere | 7% | C | B | 24 min | $64,528 |
| Cherry Valley Township | 1% | C+ | C | 23 min | $69,367 |
| Rockford Township | under 1% | — | — | 22 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Rockford Township: not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Cherry Valley’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 Cherry Valley: questions
What is the median household income in Cherry Valley?
$74,655 (±$11,420) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cherry Valley?
8.3%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cherry Valley?
24 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cherry Valley work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Rockford (41%, 5 mi), Belvidere (7%, 5 mi), Loves Park (3%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Cherry Valley walkable?
Cherry Valley is more walkable than 46% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 6.9 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Cherry Valley without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Cherry Valley, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cherry Valley
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.