Household incomes in Delavan Township trail those of 62% of U.S. towns
Delavan Township grades C for jobs and income and B− for walkability. The poverty rate is 12.4%, against 11.8% across Illinois. 5% of workers work from home, where Illinois as a whole has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Delavan Township and work: the main findings
Delavan Township has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Delavan Township went from 345 in 2013 to 545 in 2023, +58%. The jobs ↓
Delavan Township makes and builds things
43% of the jobs based in Delavan Township are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Delavan Township residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 20%. The jobs ↓
A longer commute than the towns next door
Delavan Township averages 29 minutes each way, more than any bordering town (18 to 24 minutes). Next door ↓
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 752 working residents, small shifts move the shares; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Inside Delavan Township’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Delavan Township is better than 34% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Delavan Township’s grade.
Unemployment (5.0%) is left out: Delavan 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, Delavan Township could be anywhere from C− to B.
Making and building: 43% of jobs based in Delavan Township
545 jobs are based in Delavan Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Delavan Township, 2013 → 2023: 345 → 545. 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 Delavan Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Delavan Township quiets down on a workday
On a workday 694 residents head out to work, 58 work right here, and 487 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,700 people are in Delavan Township on a workday afternoon, 11% fewer than live here.
0.72 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.
13% of working residents work in Pekin
Where Delavan Township clocks in
Lines 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.
About 29 minutes each way for Delavan Township’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Delavan Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 693 commuters (the 5% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Delavan Township
About 20% 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.
In Delavan Township, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Delavan Township is more walkable than 53% 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 730 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). 4.6% of Delavan Township households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Delavan Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
3,321st of 5,921: where Delavan Township ranks among U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,600
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 33 | Bannockburn IL | 1,308 | $214K | 5.1% | 1.8% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 39 | Prestbury IL | 2,045 | $165K | 1.9% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,319 | Windsor PA | 1,420 | $64K | 22.3% | 5.1% | 1% | C |
| 3,320 | Edgewood TX | 1,763 | $74K | 12.7% | 3.5% | 8% | C |
| 3,321 | Delavan Township IL | 1,916 | $67K | 12.4% | 5.0% | 8% | C |
| 3,322 | Maple Grove Township MI | 1,635 | $85K | 12.2% | 5.5% | 1% | C |
| 3,323 | Stanton NE | 1,506 | $77K | 10.7% | 2.4% | 7% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,921 | 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 Delavan Township, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
Delavan Township and its neighbors
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Delavan Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delavan Township | – | C | B− | 29 min | $67,250 |
| Prairie Creek Township | under 3% | — | — | 24 min | — |
| Dillon Township | under 3% | — | — | 23 min | — |
| Boynton Township | under 3% | — | — | 18 min | — |
| Malone Township | under 3% | — | — | — | — |
| Orvil Township | under 3% | — | — | 24 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Prairie Creek Township, Boynton Township and Malone Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Dillon Township and Orvil Township: not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Delavan 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 Delavan Township: questions
What is the median household income in Delavan Township?
$67,250 (±$13,749) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Delavan Township?
12.4%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Delavan Township?
29 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Delavan Township work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Pekin (13%, 15 mi), Peoria (12%, 27 mi), Morton (9%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Delavan Township walkable?
Delavan Township is more walkable than 53% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 7.7 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Delavan Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Delavan Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Delavan 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.