How Greene Township works: jobs, income and commuting
Home is the office for 9% of workers, against 16% across Illinois. Greene Township grades B for jobs and income and B for walkability. Only 4% stay in Greene Township for work; outside it, Aledo is the main destination (9%, 7 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Income, poverty and work: Greene Township’s grade explained
On income, poverty and job access, Greene Township is better than 62% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Greene Township’s grade up (6.0%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 46% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (7.6%) is left out: Greene 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, Greene Township could be anywhere from B− to A−.
Greene Township on a workday afternoon
On a workday 612 residents head out to work, 28 work right here, and 357 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Greene Township on a workday afternoon, 18% fewer than live here.
0.60 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.
Where Greene Township goes to work
Where Greene Township clocks in
9% of workers
9% 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.
Inside Greene Township’s 385 jobs
385 jobs are based in Greene Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Greene Township, 2013 → 2023: 350 → 385. 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 Greene Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Greene Township’s commute takes about 28 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Greene Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 581 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.
Half of Greene Township commutes less than 22 miles
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.
Most of Greene Township commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Greene Township is more walkable than 62% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 6.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 10.8% across Illinois, on an EPA index of 6.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 637 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). 0.7% of Greene Township households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Greene Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 5,877 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900, Greene Township comes 1,386th 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 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
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| 29 | Tower Lakes IL | 1,201 | $154K | 2.0% | 2.8% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 32 | Third Lake IL | 1,103 | $150K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 37 | Lily Lake IL | 1,073 | $140K | 0.2% | 8.9% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,384 | Miamitown OH | 1,169 | $65K | 8.0% | 3.4% | <1% | B |
| 1,385 | Conyngham PA | 1,837 | $70K | 5.8% | 1.9% | 2% | B |
| 1,386 | Greene Township IL | 1,401 | $78K | 6.0% | 7.6% | 4% | B |
| 1,387 | Gibson Township IN | 1,146 | $100K | 7.5% | 2.2% | 0% | B |
| 1,388 | Kalamo Township MI | 1,776 | $87K | 7.7% | 5.2% | 1% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | 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 Greene Township, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
Work in the towns next to Greene Township
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Greene Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greene Township | – | B | B | 28 min | $78,056 |
| Mercer Township | under 3% | C+ | B | 19 min | $71,042 |
| Suez Township | under 3% | — | — | 29 min | — |
| Rivoli Township | under 3% | C | C | 35 min | $55,875 |
| Preemption Township | under 3% | B+ | D | 35 min | $85,673 |
Same-state neighbors only. Suez Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Greene 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 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 Greene Township: questions
What is the median household income in Greene Township?
$78,056 (±$10,697) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Greene Township?
6.0%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Greene Township?
28 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Greene Township work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Aledo (9%, 7 mi), Davenport (9%, 25 mi), Rock Island (8%, 19 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Greene Township walkable?
Greene Township is more walkable than 62% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 6.0 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Greene Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Greene Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Greene Township
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.