Photo: Nyttend · Public domainHouseholds in Grayville earn less than those in 92% of U.S. towns
Only 7% work in Grayville; the top destination outside it is Albion (14%, 9 miles). The poverty rate is 29.8%; Illinois has 11.8%. Grayville grades D− 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
What the numbers say about work in Grayville
Inside Grayville’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Grayville is better than 2% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Grayville’s grade.
Unemployment (8.5%) is left out: Grayville’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, Grayville could be anywhere from D− to D.
Where the trip to work from Grayville ends
Where Grayville clocks in
14% of workers
11% of workers
8% 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.
Grayville on a workday afternoon
On a workday 556 residents head out to work, 43 work right here, and 361 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Grayville on a workday afternoon, 13% fewer than live here.
0.67 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
What work there is in Grayville: 404 jobs
404 jobs are based in Grayville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Grayville, 2013 → 2023: 407 → 404. 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 Grayville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Grayville: about 29 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Grayville workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 555 commuters (the 12% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Grayville
About 23% 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 Grayville gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Grayville is more walkable than 71% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 11.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 10.8% across Illinois, on an EPA index of 6.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 628 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). 10.6% of Grayville households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Grayville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Grayville and other 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% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 32 | Tower Lakes IL | 1,201 | $154K | 2.0% | 2.8% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 35 | Third Lake IL | 1,103 | $150K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 40 | Lily Lake IL | 1,073 | $140K | 0.2% | 8.9% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6,080 | Cascade ID | 1,018 | $54K | 32.0% | 8.8% | 27% | D− |
| 6,081 | Milford IL | 1,116 | $47K | 26.8% | 4.2% | 10% | D− |
| 6,082 | Grayville IL | 1,483 | $46K | 29.8% | 8.5% | 7% | D− |
| 6,083 | Tylertown MS | 1,486 | $33K | 34.2% | 11.6% | 18% | D− |
| 6,084 | Fullerton NE | 1,228 | $48K | 26.9% | 3.2% | 18% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 6,308 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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 Grayville, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
Work in the towns next to Grayville
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Grayville workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grayville | – | D− | B+ | 29 min | $46,319 |
| Gray Township | under 2% | D− | A− | 27 min | $51,397 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Grayville’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 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 Grayville: questions
What is the median household income in Grayville?
$46,319 (±$9,016) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Grayville?
29.8%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Grayville?
29 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Grayville work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Albion (14%, 9 mi), Carmi (11%, 15 mi), Evansville (8%, 31 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Grayville walkable?
Grayville is more walkable than 71% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 6.2 out of 20, and 11% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Grayville without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 11% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Grayville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Grayville
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.