Cold Spring Township has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
Home is the office for 6% of workers, next to 16% for Illinois as a whole. Employers in Cold Spring Township report 12 jobs, and 148 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any work in Cold Spring Township; the top destination outside it is Shelbyville (13%, 12 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who commutes out of Cold Spring Township, and who commutes in
On a workday 148 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 12 people come in from elsewhere.
About 180 people are in Cold Spring Township on a workday afternoon, 43% 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.
Where Cold Spring Township goes to work
Where Cold Spring Township clocks in
13% of workers
9% 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.
Making and building: 67% of jobs based in Cold Spring Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cold Spring Township, 2013 → 2023: 33 → 12. 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 Cold Spring Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 21 minutes from Cold Spring Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cold Spring Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 153 commuters (the 6% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Cold Spring Township
About 26% 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.
Next door to Cold Spring Township
The biggest share goes to Oconee Township (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Cold Spring Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cold Spring Township | – | — | — | 21 min | — |
| Oconee Township | 3% | — | — | 34 min | — |
| Tower Hill Township | under 3% | — | — | 19 min | — |
| Herrick Township | under 3% | — | — | 29 min | — |
| Lakewood Township | under 3% | — | — | 19 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Oconee Township, Tower Hill Township, Herrick Township and Lakewood Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Cold Spring 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 Cold Spring Township: questions
What is the poverty rate in Cold Spring Township?
20.5%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cold Spring Township?
21 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cold Spring Township work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Shelbyville (13%, 12 mi), Pana (9%, 9 mi), Effingham (7%, 25 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Cold Spring Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Cold Spring Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cold Spring 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.