Photo: User:Visviva · CC BY-SA 4.0Custer Township has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.0 for each
32 jobs are based in Custer Township for 715 working residents. Jobs and income earn Custer Township B+; getting around on foot earns it C−. Household incomes here are higher than in 89% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Custer Township stands out on work
Custer Township is a place people come home to
There are 32 jobs based in Custer Township, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Custer Township has about 660 people in it, 51% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Custer Township’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Custer Township is Chicago, 48 miles away as the crow flies. 10% of working residents (71) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Custer Township workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 36 minutes each way, against 28 across Illinois. Over a year that’s about 276 hours of commuting, 61 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
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 715 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Jobs & income in Custer Township: the grade in detail
On income, poverty and job access, Custer Township is better than 69% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Custer Township’s grade up ($121,771, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate pulls it down (11.3%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on job access by car.
Unemployment (11.6%) is left out: Custer 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, Custer Township could be anywhere from B− to A.
Who commutes out of Custer Township, and who commutes in
On a workday 705 residents head out to work, 10 work right here, and 22 people come in from elsewhere.
About 660 people are in Custer Township on a workday afternoon, 51% 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.
How far it is to work from Custer Township
About 17% 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.
The daily trip from Custer Township: about 36 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Custer Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 625 commuters (the 7% 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.
10% of working residents work in Chicago
Where Custer Township clocks in
10% of workers
9% of workers
5% 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.
Goods jobs make up 47% of work in Custer Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Custer Township, 2013 → 2023: 38 → 32. 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 Custer Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
In Custer Township, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Custer Township is more walkable than 16% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 10.8% across Illinois, on an EPA index of 2.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 670 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). 8.2% of Custer Township households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Custer Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Custer Township places 983rd of 5,400 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 900 to 1,800
| # | 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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| 28 | Tower Lakes IL | 1,201 | $154K | 2.0% | 2.8% | <1% | A+ |
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| 31 | Third Lake IL | 1,103 | $150K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 36 | Lily Lake IL | 1,073 | $140K | 0.2% | 8.9% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 981 | Walnut Grove GA | 1,735 | $83K | 9.7% | 3.2% | 2% | B+ |
| 982 | Black Earth WI | 1,523 | $76K | 6.1% | 3.7% | 3% | B+ |
| 983 | Custer Township IL | 1,347 | $122K | 11.3% | 11.6% | 1% | B+ |
| 984 | Rock Grove Township IL | 1,458 | $100K | 7.1% | 5.8% | 1% | B+ |
| 985 | Lincoln WI | 1,093 | $111K | 7.9% | 5.8% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | 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 Custer Township, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
The towns around Custer Township
The biggest share goes to Wilmington (5%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Custer Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Custer Township | – | B+ | C− | 36 min | $121,771 |
| Wesley Township | under 2% | B | D | 26 min | $78,031 |
| Rest Haven | under 2% | — | — | 34 min | — |
| Lakewood Shores | under 2% | — | — | 23 min | — |
| Salina Township | under 2% | B+ | C− | 24 min | $82,357 |
| Wilmington | 5% | B− | B+ | 24 min | $66,154 |
| Reed Township | under 2% | B+ | C | 31 min | $82,398 |
Same-state neighbors only. Rest Haven and Lakewood Shores: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Custer 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 Custer Township: questions
What is the median household income in Custer Township?
$121,771 (±$18,523) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Custer Township?
11.3%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Custer Township?
36 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Custer Township work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Chicago (10%, 48 mi), Joliet (9%, 20 mi), Wilmington (5%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Custer Township walkable?
Custer Township is more walkable than 16% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 2.3 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Custer Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Custer Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Custer 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.