Dry Grove TownshipIL
A town of 1,531, settled in 1858.
Is Dry Grove Township a good place to live?
Dry Grove Township’s best subject grades are an A for incomes and an A− for health; its weakest is a C for walkability. Dry Grove Township’s median household income is $118,000, above both Illinois’ towns ($83,000) and U.S. towns ($80,000). Dry Grove Township's schools rank ahead of 68% of Illinois towns. Dry Grove Township has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes Dry Grove Township stand out
Where Dry Grove Township beats most towns.
Every workday, about 7,550 people come to Dry Grove Township for work
Where Dry Grove Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Dry Grove Township grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Illinois), ordered by how far Dry Grove Township is from typical.
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Moving to Dry Grove Township: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Dry Grove 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 Dry Grove Township.
A job hub: Dry Grove Township has 10.2 jobs for every working resident and draws in 7,550 commuters
Most working residents leave Dry Grove Township for work: only 8% work in town. Jobs based in Dry Grove Township grew to 7,608 in 2023, 5,581 more than in 2013. 4.9% of residents live below the poverty line in Dry Grove Township, against 8.4% in Illinois’ towns and 9.6% across U.S. towns.
| Dry Grove Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 4.9% | 8.4% | 9.6% |
| Average trip to work | 28 minutes | 26 minutes | 25 minutes |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Dry Grove Township is healthier than 85% of U.S. towns
Dry Grove Township beats the Illinois average on 13 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 0. 18% of adults get no exercise outside work in Dry Grove Township.
| Dry Grove Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 23% | 25% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 11% | 13% | 14% |
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 18% | 16% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 18% | 19% |
| What stands out | Dry Grove Township | IL |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer uninsured adults | 5.9% | 9.9% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 10.4% | 15.9% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Low risk in Dry Grove Township, with inland flooding at the top
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 68% of U.S. communities. Since 1981, 3 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Dry Grove Township.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Dry Grove Township has four seasons and pleasant summers
Dry Grove Township has chilly winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 85°, January nights drop to 17° and about 7 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
An age mix much like Illinois’s
No broad age group is more than 4 points off the Illinois average. 41% of Dry Grove Township adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more.
| Dry Grove Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 41% | 29% | 29% |
| Median age | 44.8 years | 40.7 years | 40.5 years |
| Under 18 | 20% | 22% | 22% |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±9.9 points. Across Illinois, 50.6% of residents are women.
| Dry Grove Township | IL | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 10% | 11.5% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 9.5% | 10.4% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 2.8% | 9.1% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 18.1% | 13.6% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 9.9% | 13.3% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 9.7% | 12.4% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 20.4% | 12.8% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 13.1% | 10% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 6.4% | 7% | 7% |
| No diploma | 1.2% | 9.5% | 10.4% |
| High school | 23.6% | 25.1% | 26% |
| Some college | 15.4% | 19.2% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 18.7% | 8.3% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 26.4% | 22.6% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 14.7% | 15.3% | 14.1% |
U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 1,500, single groups can be off by several points
| Dry Grove Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conserved land | 0.1% | 3.7% | 4.3% |
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.1 miles per square mile | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. M.J. Rhymer Family Nature Preserve | 0.9 mi | 15 |
| 2. Rivian Natural Area | 0.1 mi | 16 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Miller Park Zoo and 8 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Dry Grove Township. Close and well known come first.
37 mi Zoo & aquariumWildlife Prairie Park28 mi Zoo & aquariumPeoria Zoo
6 mi GardenFell Arboretum10 mi MuseumPrairie Aviation Museum
11 mi Theme parkSpider HillPhoto credits
Wildlife Prairie Park: Katherine Johnson, CC BY 2.0 · Fell Arboretum: Willjay, CC BY 3.0 · Spider Hill: NatFee, CC BY-SA 4.0
Everything we know about Dry Grove Township
Colleges nearby
3 within 15 miles of the center of Dry Grove Township
About 3 of every 100 Dry Grove Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Illinois.
About Dry Grove Township
Township in Illinois, United States
Dry Grove Township is located in McLean County, Illinois. As of the 2010 census, its population was 1,572 and it contained 618 housing units. It contains part of the census-designated place of Twin Grove. Dry Grove Township took its name after Dry Grove, an area of forest at a relatively high and dry elevation.
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- Area
- 36 sq mi
Dry Grove Township’s neighbors
7 towns share a border with Dry Grove Township.
| Town | IL rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dry Grove Township | — | — | B− | — | B+ | A− |
| Bloomington | #204 | A− | B− | — | B | A− |
| Bloomington City Township | #188 | A− | B− | — | B | A− |
| Dale Township | — | — | C+ | — | B+ | A |
| Normal Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Twin Grove | — | — | C+ | — | B+ | A− |
| White Oak Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Danvers Township | — | — | C+ | — | B+ | A− |
Dry Grove Township, Dale Township, Twin Grove and Danvers Township have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Dry Grove Township, Bloomington, Bloomington City Township, Dale Township, Twin Grove and Danvers Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Normal Township and White Oak Township aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Dry Grove Township with a neighbor →
Questions about Dry Grove Township
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Dry Grove 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 B−.