Chrisman has lower household incomes than 76% of U.S. towns
Below the poverty line: 18.0% of residents, against 11.8% across Illinois. Jobs and income earn Chrisman D; getting around on foot earns it C+. About one in ten work in Chrisman itself; outside it, Paris draws the most (20%, 13 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Chrisman, in brief
Chrisman and Paris trade workers both ways
Paris is the top workplace for Chrisman residents (20%) and also where the most people who work in Chrisman come from (12% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Commutes from Chrisman are quick
The average trip to work takes 20 minutes, against 28 across Illinois. That’s about 61 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 381 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Chrisman earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Chrisman is better than 8% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Chrisman’s grade.
Unemployment (7.1%) is left out: Chrisman’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, Chrisman could be anywhere from D− to C+.
Out of Chrisman to work: where people go
Where Chrisman clocks in
20% of workers
5% of workers
4% 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.
From Chrisman, about 20 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Chrisman workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 340 commuters (the 10% 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.
Who leaves Chrisman for work, and who comes in
On a workday 338 residents head out to work, 43 work right here, and 204 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Chrisman on a workday afternoon, 11% fewer than live here.
0.65 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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Chrisman
247 jobs are based in Chrisman.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Chrisman, 2013 → 2023: 259 → 247. 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 Chrisman’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where in the region Chrisman works
About 25% 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.
Most of Chrisman commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Chrisman is more walkable than 38% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 10.8% across Illinois, on an EPA index of 5.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 378 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). 2.9% of Chrisman households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Chrisman’s commuters take a bus or train.
4,128th of 4,866: where Chrisman ranks among U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700
| # | 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+ |
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| 25 | Tower Lakes IL | 1,201 | $154K | 2.0% | 2.8% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 28 | Third Lake IL | 1,103 | $150K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 33 | Lily Lake IL | 1,073 | $140K | 0.2% | 8.9% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,126 | Morgan Township MO | 1,376 | $59K | 16.3% | 3.4% | 36% | D |
| 4,127 | Mahoning Township PA | 1,364 | $53K | 14.6% | 3.0% | 2% | D |
| 4,128 | Chrisman IL | 1,263 | $58K | 18.0% | 7.1% | 11% | D |
| 4,129 | Chippewa Township MI | 1,285 | $59K | 15.2% | 3.2% | <1% | D |
| 4,130 | Evart Township MI | 1,366 | $48K | 12.0% | 15.7% | 1% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | 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 Chrisman, 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 Chrisman: questions
What is the median household income in Chrisman?
$58,462 (±$11,624) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Chrisman?
18.0%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Chrisman?
20 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Chrisman work?
11% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Paris (20%, 13 mi), Champaign (5%, 38 mi), Urbana (4%, 35 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Chrisman walkable?
Chrisman is more walkable than 38% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 5.3 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Chrisman without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Chrisman, from the people who make the trip.
More of Chrisman
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.