Delavan Commercial Historic District · Photo: Ammodramus · CC0Delavan has 0.2 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
5% of workers have no commute at all, next to 16% for Illinois as a whole. 126 jobs are based in Delavan, and 601 of its residents work somewhere. Delavan grades 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
Work in Delavan: the figures worth knowing
The figures behind Delavan’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Delavan is better than 35% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Delavan’s grade.
Unemployment (5.8%) is left out: Delavan’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 could be anywhere from C− to B.
In and out of Delavan on a workday
On a workday 585 residents head out to work, 16 work right here, and 110 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Delavan on a workday afternoon, 31% 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.
11% of working residents work in Pekin
Where Delavan 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.
What Delavan’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Delavan, 2013 → 2023: 134 → 126. 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’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Delavan takes about 30 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Delavan workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 589 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.
The distance from Delavan to work
About 21% 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.
Driving is how Delavan gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Delavan is more walkable than 62% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 2.0% 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 621 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). 5.5% of Delavan households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Delavan’s commuters take a bus or train.
3,058th of 5,794: where Delavan ranks among U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,100
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 26 | Tower Lakes IL | 1,201 | $154K | 2.0% | 2.8% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 29 | Third Lake IL | 1,103 | $150K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 39 | Bannockburn IL | 1,308 | $214K | 5.1% | 1.8% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,056 | North Key Largo FL | 1,808 | $150K | 28.1% | 2.6% | 17% | C |
| 3,057 | Basye VA | 1,481 | $74K | 8.6% | 0.0% | 7% | C |
| 3,058 | Delavan IL | 1,548 | $63K | 11.0% | 5.8% | 3% | C |
| 3,059 | Weston OH | 1,486 | $61K | 12.6% | 5.6% | 2% | C |
| 3,060 | Cascade Locks OR | 1,367 | $70K | 8.2% | 5.6% | 5% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,794 | 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, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
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: questions
What is the median household income in Delavan?
$62,841 (±$14,783) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Delavan?
11.0%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Delavan?
30 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 work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Pekin (11%, 14 mi), Peoria (11%, 27 mi), Morton (9%, 17 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Delavan walkable?
Delavan is more walkable than 62% 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 Delavan without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Delavan, from the people who make the trip.
More of Delavan
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.