Cunningham TownshipIL
A town of 39,719.
What should you know before moving to Cunningham Township?
Cunningham Township's standout: few places in the country are easier to get around without a car. Overall it grades C, ranked 567th of 767 in Illinois. It has 8 miles of trail. Its weakest subject is schools: its public schools trail 85% of Illinois towns on state tests and graduation. 28% of residents live below the poverty line in Cunningham Township, where Illinois’ towns sit at 8.4% and U.S. towns at 9.6%. Only 6 of the 768 Illinois towns we compare have a lower median age than Cunningham Township. The biggest place to walk is Meadowbrook Park, 129 acres with 1.8 miles of trail.
What makes Cunningham Township stand out
Where Cunningham Township beats most towns.
Community nonprofits per 1,000 residents
Every workday, about 18,475 people come to Cunningham Township for work
Where Cunningham Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Cunningham Township grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Illinois), ordered by how far Cunningham Township is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
American Football House and 12 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Cunningham Township. Close and well known come first.
in town LandmarkAmerican Football House
2 mi Stadium & arenaGies Memorial Stadium
in town TheatreKrannert Center for the Performing Arts2 mi MuseumKrannert Art Museum
in town MuseumSpurlock Museum
13 mi MuseumOctave Chanute Aerospace MuseumPhoto credits
American Football House: BanjoZebra, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Gies Memorial Stadium: T.J. Blakeman, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Krannert Center for the Performing Arts: Aries Liang, Public domain · Spurlock Museum: Daderot, CC0 · Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum: Chris Light (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0
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Moving to Cunningham Township: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Cunningham Township, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Sep 12, 2025.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Cunningham Township.
Cunningham Township is shaped by its college students, draws workers from Champaign and beyond and is healthier than towns with similar incomes.
Cunningham Township earns a C− for schools
Its public schools are run by Urbana SD 116. Two of its 16 schools are below, each with why it’s listed.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urbana Middle SchoolLargest public middle schoolGrades 6–8 | Grades 6–8 | 877 | D |
| Urbana High SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 1,176 | B |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within IL on state tests and graduation
About two in five of Cunningham Township’s working residents commute to Champaign
20,968 jobs are based in Cunningham Township, 1.7 for every working resident, so most of the people who work here commute in. The average commute takes 14.2 minutes, against 27.8 across Illinois.
About one in 5 of Cunningham Township’s working residents works in town. The average trip to work in Cunningham Township is 14 minutes. Jobs based in Cunningham Township grew to 20,968 in 2023, 3,333 more than in 2013.
| Cunningham Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 14 minutes | 26 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $45,000 | $83,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 20% | 8.3% | 8% |
| Work from home | 19% | 11% | 11% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
7.5% of Cunningham Township is conserved land
8.5 miles of trail in 25 parks and preserves. Cunningham Township’s trail density is 0.7 miles per square mile.
| Cunningham Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.7 miles per square mile | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 7.5% | 3.6% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Meadowbrook Park | 1.8 mi | 129 |
| 2. Weaver Park | 1.4 mi | 60 |
| 3. University of Illinois Arboretum | 1.2 mi | 37 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Cunningham Township is healthier than 72% of U.S. towns
Against the 4,141 U.S. towns with household incomes like Cunningham Township’s, it is healthier than 98%, so its B+ isn’t only a matter of income.
Cunningham Township beats the Illinois average on 4 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 7. 36% of Cunningham Township adults feel lonely.
| Cunningham Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 36% | 33% | 33% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 30% | 35% | 35% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 75% | 78% | 79% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 13% | 14% |
| What stands out | Cunningham Township | IL |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 6.5% | 7.6% |
| Fewer adults with diabetes | 10.1% | 11.7% |
| More adults without reliable transportation | 10.5% | 8% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
In Cunningham Township, expect four seasons and pleasant summers
Cunningham Township has chilly winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 85°, January nights drop to 18° and about 21 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Low risk in Cunningham Township, with inland flooding at the top
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 61% of U.S. communities. Since 1982, 2 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Cunningham Township.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Everything we know about Cunningham Township
Colleges nearby
2 within 15 miles of the center of Cunningham Township
College town 36 of every 100 Cunningham Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Illinois.
About Cunningham Township
Township in Illinois, United States
Cunningham Township is a township in Champaign County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 38,336 and it contained 18,321 housing units. Cunningham Township is coterminous with the City of Urbana. It is one of two coterminous townships in Champaign County and one of fifteen coterminous townships statewide.
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- Area
- 12 sq mi
- Elevation
- 728 ft
Cunningham Township’s neighbors
5 towns share a border with Cunningham Township.
| Town | IL rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cunningham Township | #567 | C | C | — | C− | B+ |
| Urbana | #652 | C− | C | D | C− | A− |
| Urbana Township | #493 | B− | B | — | C− | B+ |
| Somer Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Champaign | #624 | C− | C− | C− | C | B+ |
| Champaign City Township | #504 | B− | C− | — | C | A− |
Cunningham Township, Urbana Township and Champaign City Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Somer Township isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Cunningham Township with a neighbor →
Questions about Cunningham Township
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Cunningham Township, IL a good place to live?
Cunningham Township grades C overall, better than 35% of U.S. towns and #567 of 767 in Illinois. It grades B+ for health and C− for schools. Schools is its weak spot, with a C−.
Is Cunningham Township, IL expensive?
Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C.