Household incomes in Coral Township top those of 84% of U.S. towns
Only 3% stay in Coral Township for work; outside it, Chicago is the main destination (12%, 50 miles). 2.8% of residents live below the poverty line, next to 11.8% for Illinois as a whole. Coral Township grades A− for jobs and income and C− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Coral Township, in brief
Coral Township makes and builds things
79% of the jobs based in Coral Township are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Coral Township residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 19%. The jobs ↓
Coral Township’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Coral Township is Chicago, 50 miles away as the crow flies. 12% of working residents (184) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Coral Township is the work center of its corner
Every town that borders Coral Township (Grafton Township, Hampshire Township, Seneca Township, Riley Township, Huntley and others) has fewer jobs than working residents, while Coral Township has 1.5 per resident. Next door ↓
The biggest group of Coral Township’s workers comes from Belvidere
175 of the people who work in Coral Township live in Belvidere, 19 miles away, more than from any other town. The commute map ↓
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.
Coral Township’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
The poverty rate holds Coral Township’s grade up; unemployment pulls it down (5.3%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Coral Township could be anywhere from B+ to A+.
In Coral Township, 79% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
2,393 jobs are based in Coral Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Coral Township, 2013 → 2023: 2,024 → 2,393. 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 Coral Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many miles Coral Township commutes
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.
The towns that send workers to Coral Township
Where Coral Township clocks in
12% 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.
The daily commute in and out of Coral Township
On a workday 1,517 residents head out to work, 45 work right here, and 2,348 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4,600 people are in Coral Township on a workday afternoon, 22% more than live here.
1.5 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than 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.
Getting to work from Coral Township takes about 31 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Coral Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,592 commuters (the 23% 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.
Driving is how Coral Township gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Coral Township is more walkable than 16% of U.S. towns, #736 of 768 in Illinois. Both inputs place Coral 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 2,079 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). 2.7% of Coral Township households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Coral Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Coral Township next to U.S. towns of 2,600 to 5,000: 644th of 4,318 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 24 | Deer Park IL | 3,647 | $174K | 1.3% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 98 | Lakewood IL | 4,293 | $174K | 3.5% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 642 | Union Township OH | 3,164 | $119K | 2.4% | 3.6% | 4% | A− |
| 643 | Orwigsburg PA | 3,003 | $84K | 3.6% | 1.9% | 8% | A− |
| 644 | Coral Township IL | 3,731 | $111K | 2.8% | 5.3% | 3% | A− |
| 645 | Rising Sun-Lebanon DE | 4,163 | $114K | 8.0% | 0.9% | 2% | A− |
| 646 | Licking Township OH | 4,996 | $92K | 7.0% | 2.0% | 3% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,318 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Coral Township, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
Around Coral Township: the bordering towns
The biggest share goes to Huntley (5%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Coral Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coral Township | – | A− | C− | 31 min | $110,888 |
| Grafton Township | under 2% | A | B− | 31 min | $130,767 |
| Hampshire Township | under 2% | — | — | 29 min | — |
| Seneca Township | under 2% | B+ | C− | 34 min | $133,558 |
| Riley Township | under 2% | A | C− | 32 min | $164,764 |
| Huntley | 5% | B+ | B | 30 min | $88,536 |
| Hampshire | under 2% | A− | B− | 28 min | $94,773 |
Same-state neighbors only. Hampshire Township: not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Coral 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 Coral Township: questions
What is the median household income in Coral Township?
$110,888 (±$9,393) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Coral Township?
2.8%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Coral Township?
31 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 23% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Coral Township work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Chicago (12%, 50 mi), Huntley (5%, 6 mi), Elgin (4%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Coral Township walkable?
Coral Township is more walkable than 16% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 5.2 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Coral Township without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Coral Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Coral 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.