Greenup Commercial Historic District · Photo: Nyttend · Public domainGreenup draws 1,142 commuters a day, with 2.2 jobs for every working resident
Measured by household income, Greenup is behind 86% of U.S. towns. Greenup has 1,275 jobs, against 574 working residents. For jobs and income Greenup is better than 21% of U.S. towns (C−); for walkability it is more walkable than 64% of U.S. towns (B).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Greenup stands out on work
Greenup is where the jobs are
Greenup has 1,275 jobs, 2.2 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 2,000 people are in town, 53% more than the 1,300 who live here. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Greenup are quick
The average trip to work takes 16 minutes, against 28 across Illinois. That’s about 92 hours a year less on the road than the typical Illinois worker. Time on the road ↓
Greenup makes and builds things
51% of the jobs based in Greenup are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Greenup residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 30%. 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; with 574 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Greenup’s Jobs & income grade
The poverty rate holds Greenup’s grade up (9.2%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($51,417, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (3.3%) is left out: Greenup’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, Greenup could be anywhere from D to C+.
Who leaves Greenup for work, and who comes in
On a workday 441 residents head out to work and 133 work right here.
About 2,000 people are in Greenup on a workday afternoon, 53% more than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
How long Greenup spends getting to work: about 16 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Greenup workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 782 commuters (the 6% 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.
A place that makes things: 51% of Greenup’s jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Greenup, 2013 → 2023: 881 → 1,275. 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’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where Greenup’s workforce comes from
Where Greenup clocks in
9% of workers
7% 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.
How far it is to work from Greenup
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.
In Greenup, most people drive to work
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 6.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 10.8% across Illinois, on an EPA index of 6.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 833 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). 3.1% of Greenup households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Greenup’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Greenup is 3,671st of 5,400 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,800
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 28 | Tower Lakes IL | 1,201 | $154K | 2.0% | 2.8% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 31 | Third Lake IL | 1,103 | $150K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 36 | Lily Lake IL | 1,073 | $140K | 0.2% | 8.9% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,669 | Hamer SC | 1,042 | $64K | 16.2% | 5.1% | 2% | C− |
| 3,670 | Leesburg AL | 1,009 | $57K | 10.8% | 2.6% | 5% | C− |
| 3,671 | Greenup IL | 1,330 | $51K | 9.2% | 3.3% | 23% | C− |
| 3,672 | North English IA | 1,041 | $55K | 10.3% | 3.7% | 7% | C− |
| 3,673 | Fletcher OK | 1,274 | $71K | 19.7% | 4.6% | 3% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | 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 Greenup, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
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: questions
What is the median household income in Greenup?
$51,417 (±$11,356) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Greenup?
9.2%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Greenup?
16 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Greenup work?
23% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Mattoon (9%, 19 mi), Charleston (7%, 16 mi), Effingham (7%, 23 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Greenup walkable?
Greenup is more walkable than 64% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 6.1 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Greenup 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, from the people who make the trip.
More of Greenup
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.