Photo: user:Starkin · CC BY-SA 4.0Fewer people are out of work in Greenup Township (2.3%) than in 80% of U.S. towns
Household incomes here are lower than in 77% of U.S. towns. Greenup Township grades C+ for jobs and income and B− for walkability. 7% of workers work from home, where Illinois as a whole has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Greenup Township stands out on work
Greenup Township and Greenup trade workers both ways
Greenup is the top workplace for Greenup Township residents (22%) and also where the most people who work in Greenup Township come from (10% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Greenup Township makes and builds things
52% of the jobs based in Greenup Township are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Greenup Township residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 30%. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Greenup Township are quick
The average trip to work takes 19 minutes, against 28 across Illinois. That’s about 69 hours a year less on the road than the typical Illinois worker. Time on the road ↓
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; with 962 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The figures behind Greenup Township’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Greenup Township is better than 43% of U.S. towns. Unemployment holds Greenup Township’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 18% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Greenup Township could be anywhere from C− to B.
22% of working residents work in Greenup
Where Greenup Township clocks in
8% of workers
7% 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.
Goods jobs make up 52% of work in Greenup Township
1,337 jobs are based in Greenup Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Greenup Township, 2013 → 2023: 926 → 1,337. 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 Greenup Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 19 minutes each way, quicker than most of Illinois
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Greenup Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,111 commuters (the 7% 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.
Greenup Township by day and by night
On a workday 746 residents head out to work, 216 work right here, and 1,121 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,600 people are in Greenup Township on a workday afternoon, 17% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.39 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.
Half of Greenup Township commutes less than 19 miles
About 24% 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 Greenup Township gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Greenup Township is more walkable than 50% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 10.8% across Illinois, on an EPA index of 5.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,199 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). 3.0% of Greenup Township households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Greenup Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,500 to 3,000, Greenup Township ranks 2,771st of 5,641 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 32 | Prestbury IL | 2,045 | $165K | 1.9% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 34 | Port Barrington IL | 1,584 | $150K | 2.7% | 2.9% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,769 | Hilltop SC | 2,950 | $37K | 17.0% | 2.4% | 5% | C+ |
| 2,770 | Foley MN | 2,650 | $59K | 14.3% | 2.6% | 19% | C+ |
| 2,771 | Greenup Township IL | 2,208 | $58K | 8.3% | 2.3% | 22% | C+ |
| 2,772 | Windsor ME | 2,758 | $63K | 7.5% | 3.5% | 4% | C+ |
| 2,773 | Charleston ME | 1,644 | $75K | 6.4% | 1.6% | 5% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,641 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Greenup Township, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
Next door to Greenup Township
The biggest share goes to Sumpter Township (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Greenup Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greenup Township | – | C+ | B− | 19 min | $57,713 |
| Woodbury Township | under 3% | — | — | 26 min | — |
| Sumpter Township | 3% | C | B− | 21 min | $70,556 |
| Union Township | under 3% | — | — | — | — |
| Crooked Creek Township | under 3% | — | — | 50 min | — |
| Crooked Creek Township | under 3% | — | — | 33 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Woodbury Township, Union Township, Crooked Creek Township and Crooked Creek Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Greenup 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 Greenup Township: questions
What is the median household income in Greenup Township?
$57,713 (±$10,009) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Greenup Township?
8.3%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Greenup Township?
19 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Greenup Township work?
22% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Greenup (22%, 2 mi), Mattoon (8%, 21 mi), Charleston (7%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Greenup Township walkable?
Greenup Township is more walkable than 50% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 5.4 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Greenup Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Greenup Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Greenup 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.