Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0Household incomes in Crainville are lower than in 65% of U.S. towns
8% of workers have no commute at all; Illinois has 16%. 10.2% of residents live below the poverty line, where Illinois as a whole has 11.8%. The two grades for Crainville are C+ for jobs and income and B for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Crainville stands out on work
Crainville and Marion trade workers both ways
Marion is the top workplace for Crainville residents (21%) and also where the most people who work in Crainville come from (13% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Most Crainville residents work close to home
61% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home. How far ↓
Young people hold many of the jobs here
38% of the jobs based in Crainville are held by workers 29 or younger, against 22% of Crainville’s own working residents. The jobs ↓
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 605 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The four measures behind Crainville’s grade
On income, poverty and job access, Crainville is better than 44% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Crainville’s grade up (ahead of 54% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($65,461, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (2.9%) is left out: Crainville’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, Crainville could be anywhere from C to B+.
21% of working residents work in Marion
Where Crainville clocks in
21% of workers
19% 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.
The distance from Crainville to work
About 19% 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.
What Crainville’s employers do
420 jobs are based in Crainville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Crainville, 2013 → 2023: 345 → 420. 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 Crainville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
In and out of Crainville on a workday
On a workday 599 residents head out to work, 6 work right here, and 414 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Crainville on a workday afternoon, 12% fewer than live here.
0.69 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.
The daily trip from Crainville: about 22 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Crainville workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 777 commuters (the 8% 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.
Few in Crainville walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Crainville is more walkable than 59% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 10.8% across Illinois.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 846 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). 2.7% of Crainville households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Crainville’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Crainville ranks: 2,255th of 5,397 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
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| 24 | Tower Lakes IL | 1,201 | $154K | 2.0% | 2.8% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 27 | Third Lake IL | 1,103 | $150K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 37 | Bannockburn IL | 1,308 | $214K | 5.1% | 1.8% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,253 | Upper Tyrone Township PA | 1,694 | $68K | 11.6% | 6.7% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,254 | Southmont NC | 1,525 | $91K | 15.4% | 0.0% | <1% | C+ |
| 2,255 | Crainville IL | 1,507 | $65K | 10.2% | 2.9% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,256 | Clarendon Township MI | 1,182 | $77K | 8.1% | 2.0% | 4% | C+ |
| 2,257 | Meredith NY | 1,498 | $86K | 7.4% | 1.3% | 2% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,397 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Crainville, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
Next door is work for 13% of Crainville
The biggest share goes to Herrin (7%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Crainville workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crainville | – | C+ | B | 22 min | $65,461 |
| Carterville | 6% | C+ | C+ | 20 min | $62,337 |
| Herrin | 7% | C | C | 22 min | $59,975 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Crainville’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 Crainville: questions
What is the median household income in Crainville?
$65,461 (±$10,334) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Crainville?
10.2%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Crainville?
22 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Crainville work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Marion (21%, 7 mi), Carbondale (19%, 9 mi), Herrin (7%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Crainville walkable?
Crainville is more walkable than 59% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 8.3 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Crainville 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 Crainville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Crainville
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.