With 0.3 jobs for every working resident, most of Fayetteville Township works elsewhere
Employers in Fayetteville Township report 220 jobs for 680 working residents. The two grades for Fayetteville Township are B+ for jobs and income and C for walkability. Measured by household income, Fayetteville Township is ahead of 77% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Fayetteville Township
On income, poverty and job access, Fayetteville Township is better than 71% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Fayetteville Township’s grade up ($100,858, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 45% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (3.6%) is left out: Fayetteville 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, Fayetteville Township could be anywhere from B to A−.
A workday in Fayetteville Township: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 654 residents head out to work, 26 work right here, and 194 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,000 people are in Fayetteville Township on a workday afternoon, 32% 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 2024, primary jobs.
9% of working residents work in Belleville
Where Fayetteville Township clocks in
9% 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.
In Fayetteville Township, 34% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Fayetteville Township, 2014 → 2024: 176 → 220. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Fayetteville Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 30 minutes from Fayetteville Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Fayetteville Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 702 commuters (the 9% 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.
How many miles Fayetteville Township commutes
About 17% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Fayetteville Township is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Fayetteville Township is more walkable than 31% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 10.8% across Illinois, on an EPA index of 4.6.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 772 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). 3.5% of Fayetteville Township households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Fayetteville Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Fayetteville Township ranks: 1,072nd of 6,308 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 2,000
| # | 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% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 2% | A+ |
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| 32 | Tower Lakes IL | 1,201 | $154K | 2.0% | 2.8% | 1% | A+ |
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| 35 | Third Lake IL | 1,103 | $150K | 2.0% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 40 | Lily Lake IL | 1,073 | $140K | 0.2% | 8.9% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,070 | Yamhill OR | 1,220 | $114K | 8.4% | 1.4% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,071 | Throop NY | 1,797 | $90K | 5.4% | 1.9% | 2% | B+ |
| 1,072 | Fayetteville Township IL | 1,459 | $101K | 6.7% | 3.6% | 4% | B+ |
| 1,073 | Edgecomb ME | 1,214 | $109K | 5.6% | 3.1% | 3% | B+ |
| 1,074 | Muncy Township PA | 1,185 | $86K | 5.9% | 3.9% | 9% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6,308 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Fayetteville Township, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
Work in the towns next to Fayetteville Township
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Fayetteville Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fayetteville Township | – | B+ | C | 30 min | $100,858 |
| Engelmann Township | under 3% | — | — | — | — |
| Marissa Township | under 3% | C+ | C− | 29 min | $68,250 |
| New Athens Township | under 3% | B− | B+ | 29 min | $51,786 |
Same-state neighbors only. Engelmann Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Fayetteville 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 2024, 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 Fayetteville Township: questions
What is the median household income in Fayetteville Township?
$100,858 (±$5,320) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Fayetteville Township?
6.7%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Fayetteville Township?
30 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Fayetteville Township work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Belleville (9%, 17 mi), Marissa (6%, 7 mi), Freeburg (5%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Fayetteville Township walkable?
Fayetteville Township is more walkable than 31% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 4.6 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Fayetteville Township without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Fayetteville Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Fayetteville Township
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.