Ellington TownshipIL
A town of 2,719, settled in 1883. A regional job hub with 4,951 jobs.
What should you know before moving to Ellington Township?
Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 96% of U.S. towns. Overall it grades C+, 550th of 767 graded towns in Illinois. The median household earns $106K. Ellington Township’s average trip to work is 15 minutes, below both Illinois’ towns (26 minutes) and U.S. towns (25 minutes). Only 41 of Illinois’ 1,285 towns score lower on the outdoors. Ellington Township's schools rank behind 70% of the state's.
What makes Ellington Township stand out
Where Ellington Township beats most towns.
Every workday, about 4,789 people come to Ellington Township for work
Where Ellington Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Ellington Township grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Illinois), ordered by how far Ellington Township is from typical.
Its grades run from A for jobs and income (better than 88% of comparable towns) to D− for walkability (better than 4%), so the C+ overall blends very different results.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Moving to Ellington Township: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Ellington 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 Ellington Township.
Ellington Township draws workers from Quincy and beyond and has less no health insurance than most of Illinois, but it has little public open land.
About half of Ellington Township’s working residents commute to Quincy
4,951 jobs are based in Ellington Township, 3.5 for every working resident, so most of the people who work here commute in. The average commute takes 14.7 minutes, against 27.8 across Illinois.
Most working residents leave Ellington Township for work: only 11% work in town. 5.4% of residents live below the poverty line in Ellington Township. The top destinations are Quincy (49%), Melrose Township (3%) and Springfield (3%).
| Ellington Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $106,000 | $83,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 5.4% | 8.4% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 11% | 8.3% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Fewer young adults than Illinois overall
Adults 18 to 34 are 9% of residents (23% statewide); people 65 and older are 25% of residents (17% statewide). Ellington Township’s median age is 44.9 years. Ellington Township has lost 3.2% of its people since 2020, down to 2,719 in the Census Bureau’s 2025 estimate.
| Ellington Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median age | 44.9 years | 40.7 years | 40.5 years |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 35% | 29% | 29% |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±4.3 points. Across Illinois, 50.6% of residents are women.
| Ellington Township | IL | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 14% | 11.5% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 13.8% | 10.4% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 1.9% | 9.1% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 7.1% | 13.6% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 13.4% | 13.3% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 10.1% | 12.4% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 14.6% | 12.8% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 15.1% | 10% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 10.2% | 7% | 7% |
| No diploma | 2.1% | 9.5% | 10.4% |
| High school | 30.4% | 25.1% | 26% |
| Some college | 21.5% | 19.2% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 11.2% | 8.3% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 25.7% | 22.6% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 9% | 15.3% | 14.1% |
Census population estimates, 2025 · U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 2,700, single groups can be off by several points
Ellington Township is healthier than 69% of U.S. towns
Its widest gap with Illinois is no health insurance: 6.1% of those 18–64 have no health insurance, against 9.9% statewide. Against the 7,755 U.S. towns with household incomes like Ellington Township’s, it is less healthy than 52%: its national edge comes with its incomes.
Ellington Township beats the Illinois average on 6 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 4. 31% of Ellington Township adults feel lonely.
| Ellington Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 31% | 33% | 33% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 17% | 17% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 37% | 35% | 35% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 11% | 13% | 14% |
| What stands out | Ellington Township | IL |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer uninsured adults | 6.1% | 9.9% |
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 8.7% | 13.2% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 10.4% | 7.6% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
In Ellington Township, expect four seasons and pleasant summers
Ellington Township has chilly winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 86° and January nights drop to 18°.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Ellington Township faces a moderate natural-hazard risk, led by inland flooding
Expected storm and flood damage is higher than in 52% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Conserved land covers 0% of Ellington Township
Just 0 of its 21,838 acres are conserved, so there is little public open land in Ellington Township itself; its outdoors grade is D−.
0.0 miles of trail in 1 park or preserve.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Moorman Park | — | 3 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about Ellington Township
Colleges nearby
4 within 15 miles of the center of Ellington Township
About 2 of every 100 Ellington Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Illinois.
About Ellington Township
Township in Illinois, US
Ellington Township is one of twenty-two townships in Adams County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 2,820 and it contained 1,140 housing units. The southwest corner of the township is now part of Quincy Township.
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- Area
- 34 sq mi
- Elevation
- 722 ft
Ellington Township’s neighbors
6 towns share a border with Ellington Township.
| Town | IL rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ellington Township | #550 | C+ | C+ | — | C | B+ |
| Quincy · Quincy Township | #562 | C+ | B+ | — | C | C+ |
| Gilmer Township | — | — | B | — | B− | B+ |
| Riverside Township | — | — | B+ | — | C | B+ |
| Melrose Township | #589 | C | B− | — | C | B+ |
| Fowler | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Gilmer Township and Riverside Township have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Ellington Township, Quincy, Gilmer Township, Riverside Township and Melrose Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Fowler isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Quincy Township and Quincy are one community, graded once. Compare Ellington Township with a neighbor →
Questions about Ellington Township
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Ellington Township, IL a good place to live?
Ellington Township grades C+ overall, better than 37% of U.S. towns and #550 of 767 in Illinois. It grades B+ for health and C for schools. Walkability is its weak spot, with a D−.
Is Ellington 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 C+.