Photo: Christopher Columbus the Third Sir · CC BY-SA 4.0Earlville has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.5 for each
The two grades for Earlville are C− for jobs and income and B for walkability. Employers in Earlville report 283 jobs; 627 of its residents have a job. Working from home is the commute for 5% of workers, next to 16% for Illinois as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Earlville in brief
The four measures behind Earlville’s grade
On income, poverty and job access, Earlville is better than 20% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Earlville’s grade.
Unemployment (5.8%) is left out: Earlville’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Earlville could be anywhere from D to B−.
Half of Earlville commutes less than 27 miles
About 31% 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 workday shuffle in and out of Earlville
On a workday 575 residents head out to work, 52 work right here, and 231 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Earlville on a workday afternoon, 22% 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.
9% of working residents work in Ottawa
Where Earlville clocks in
9% of workers
4% 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.
Factories, building and farms: 32% of the jobs in Earlville
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Earlville, 2013 → 2023: 228 → 283. 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 Earlville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Earlville: about 32 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Earlville workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 862 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 commute in Earlville is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Earlville is more walkable than 58% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 10.8% across Illinois, on an EPA index of 5.9.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 904 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 7.4% of Earlville households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Earlville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Earlville next to U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,100: 4,015th of 5,794 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,013 | Van Vleck TX | 1,763 | $59K | 10.6% | 0.0% | 3% | C− |
| 4,014 | Blades DE | 1,372 | $57K | 13.0% | 11.9% | 1% | C− |
| 4,015 | Earlville IL | 1,590 | $64K | 16.5% | 5.8% | 8% | C− |
| 4,016 | Daisetta TX | 1,194 | $66K | 14.5% | 4.7% | 1% | C− |
| 4,017 | Laurel Township IN | 1,423 | $73K | 15.0% | 1.5% | 1% | 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 Earlville, 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 Earlville: questions
What is the median household income in Earlville?
$63,553 (±$21,067) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Earlville?
16.5%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Earlville?
32 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Earlville work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Ottawa (9%, 17 mi), Mendota (4%, 9 mi), Chicago (4%, 66 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Earlville walkable?
Earlville is more walkable than 58% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 5.9 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Earlville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Earlville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Earlville
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.