With 0.3 jobs for every working resident, most of Compromise Township works elsewhere
The two grades for Compromise Township are B+ for jobs and income and C− for walkability. There are 180 jobs in Compromise Township, and 522 of its residents work somewhere. Only 3% stay in Compromise Township for work; outside it, Champaign is the main destination (23%, 18 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Compromise Township
On income, poverty and job access, Compromise Township is better than 71% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Compromise Township’s grade up (4.4%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 34% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (2.9%) is left out: Compromise 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, Compromise Township could be anywhere from B to A−.
Compromise Township on a workday afternoon
On a workday 508 residents head out to work, 14 work right here, and 166 people come in from elsewhere.
About 940 people are in Compromise Township on a workday afternoon, 27% 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.
Commuting out of Compromise Township: the destinations
Where Compromise Township clocks in
23% of workers
18% 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 Compromise Township’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Compromise Township, 2013 → 2023: 145 → 180. 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 Compromise Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 26 minutes from Compromise Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Compromise Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 541 commuters (the 9% 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.
Compromise Township’s commute, mile by mile
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.
Most trips from Compromise Township start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Compromise Township is more walkable than 19% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Compromise Township 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 596 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). 2.3% of Compromise Township households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Compromise Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Compromise Township is 766th of 4,866 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 764 | Wells Township MN | 1,585 | $88K | 6.1% | 2.8% | 3% | B+ |
| 765 | Plover WI | 1,565 | $90K | 5.6% | 1.2% | 1% | B+ |
| 766 | Compromise Township IL | 1,285 | $96K | 4.4% | 2.9% | 3% | B+ |
| 767 | Madison Township OH | 1,083 | $89K | 4.2% | 0.0% | 2% | B+ |
| 768 | Weeping Water NE | 1,061 | $84K | 6.0% | 8.8% | 2% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 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 Compromise Township, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
Work in the towns next to Compromise Township
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Compromise Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compromise Township | – | B+ | C− | 26 min | $96,328 |
| Ogden Township | under 2% | A− | C+ | 24 min | $97,083 |
| Rantoul Township | under 2% | — | — | 19 min | — |
| Kerr Township | under 2% | — | — | 26 min | — |
| Stanton Township | under 2% | — | — | 25 min | — |
| Pilot Township | under 2% | — | — | 27 min | — |
| Middlefork Township | under 2% | B− | C− | 31 min | $78,750 |
Same-state neighbors only. Rantoul Township: not graded. Kerr Township, Stanton Township and Pilot Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Compromise 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 Compromise Township: questions
What is the median household income in Compromise Township?
$96,328 (±$9,770) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Compromise Township?
4.4%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Compromise Township?
26 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Compromise Township work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Champaign (23%, 18 mi), Urbana (18%, 15 mi), Rantoul (13%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Compromise Township walkable?
Compromise Township is more walkable than 19% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 5.4 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Compromise Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Compromise Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Compromise 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.