Household incomes in Green Oaks are higher than in 95% of U.S. towns
Working from home is the commute for 28% of workers, next to 16% for Illinois as a whole. Below the poverty line: 6.1% of residents, against 11.8% across Illinois. Jobs and income earn Green Oaks A−; getting around on foot earns it B+.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Green Oaks
Green Oaks trades workers with the towns around it
Green Oaks has about as many jobs (1,597) as working residents (1,847), but they are mostly different people: 1,819 residents leave for work each day while 1,569 people come in. Only 2% of the jobs in Green Oaks are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Green Oaks makes and builds things
50% of the jobs based in Green Oaks are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Green Oaks residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 22%. The jobs ↓
Green Oaks’ biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Green Oaks is Chicago, 34 miles away as the crow flies. 15% of working residents (272) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
A lot of Green Oaks works from home
28% of Green Oaks workers work from home, against 16% across Illinois. Time on the road ↓
Most jobs in Green Oaks pay over $40,000 a year
73% of the jobs based in Green Oaks pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), the top earnings band in the Census data. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
Inside Green Oaks’ Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Green Oaks is better than 81% of U.S. towns, #227 of 768 in Illinois. Household income holds Green Oaks’ grade up ($147,614, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down (6.3%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Green Oaks could be anywhere from B to A+.
Green Oaks by day and by night
On a workday 1,819 residents head out to work, 28 work right here, and 1,569 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.86 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Green Oaks makes things: 50% of its jobs are in goods
1,597 jobs are based in Green Oaks.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Green Oaks, 2013 → 2023: 1,983 → 1,597. 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 Green Oaks’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far it is to work from Green Oaks
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 trip to work from Green Oaks: about 31 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Green Oaks workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,207 commuters (the 28% 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.
15% of working residents work in Chicago
Where Green Oaks clocks in
15% of workers
8% of workers
6% 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.
Few in Green Oaks walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Green Oaks is more walkable than 73% of U.S. towns, #346 of 768 in Illinois. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 6.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 10.8% across Illinois, on an EPA index of 7.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,668 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 2% 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 41% 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). 11.1% of Green Oaks households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 7% of Green Oaks’ commuters take a bus or train.
Green Oaks next to U.S. towns of 2,900 to 5,500: 751st of 4,023 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 13 | South Barrington IL | 5,071 | $222K | 1.0% | 2.0% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 25 | Deer Park IL | 3,647 | $174K | 1.3% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 749 | Dogtown CA | 3,094 | $128K | 5.3% | 3.9% | 4% | A− |
| 750 | Haskell AR | 4,362 | $86K | 7.6% | 0.8% | 5% | A− |
| 751 | Green Oaks IL | 4,082 | $148K | 6.1% | 6.3% | 2% | A− |
| 752 | Combined Locks WI | 3,626 | $93K | 2.0% | 5.3% | 2% | A− |
| 753 | Moral Township IN | 4,593 | $98K | 4.4% | 4.7% | 6% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,023 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Green Oaks, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
The towns next door employ 18% of Green Oaks
The biggest share goes to Libertyville Township (8%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Green Oaks workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Green Oaks | – | A− | B+ | 31 min | $147,614 |
| Knollwood | under 2% | A | A | 21 min | $138,618 |
| Libertyville | 6% | A+ | A | 26 min | $165,667 |
| Waukegan | 4% | C+ | A− | 26 min | $71,919 |
| Mettawa | under 2% | — | — | 31 min | — |
| Libertyville Township | 8% | A | A | 26 min | $134,398 |
| Shields Township | under 2% | B+ | A+ | 21 min | $112,865 |
Same-state neighbors only. Mettawa: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Green Oaks’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 Green Oaks: questions
What is the median household income in Green Oaks?
$147,614 (±$53,511) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Green Oaks?
6.1%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Green Oaks?
31 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 28% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Green Oaks work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Chicago (15%, 34 mi), Libertyville Township (8%, 2 mi), Libertyville (6%, 3 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Green Oaks walkable?
Green Oaks is more walkable than 73% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 7.0 out of 20, and 7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Green Oaks without a car?
7% of commuters take transit and 11% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Green Oaks, from the people who make the trip.
More of Green Oaks
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.