Photo: Farragutful · CC BY-SA 4.0Hampton has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
4% of workers work from home, against 16% across Illinois. There are 124 jobs in Hampton for 697 working residents. Jobs and income earn Hampton A−; getting around on foot earns it A−.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Hampton at work: what stands out
Hampton is a place people come home to
There are 124 jobs based in Hampton, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Hampton has about 1,200 people in it, 33% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Few Hampton workers work from home
Only 4% of workers work from home, against 16% across Illinois. Almost everyone here travels to a job. 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 697 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Why Hampton gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty and job access, Hampton is better than 84% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Hampton’s grade. It also does well on household income and job access by car.
Unemployment (4.3%) is left out: Hampton’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, Hampton could be anywhere from B+ to A.
How a workday changes Hampton
On a workday 690 residents head out to work, 7 work right here, and 117 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Hampton on a workday afternoon, 33% fewer 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.
Each way, about 24 minutes from Hampton
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hampton workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 828 commuters (the 4% 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.
13% of working residents work in Davenport
Where Hampton clocks in
13% of workers
12% of workers
10% 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.
The kinds of work in Hampton
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hampton, 2013 → 2023: 129 → 124. 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 Hampton’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The distance from Hampton to work
About 25% 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.
Hampton is more walkable than most U.S. towns, with limited transit
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Hampton is more walkable than 82% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 12.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 10.8% across Illinois, on an EPA index of 7.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 863 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). 5.0% of Hampton households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Hampton’s commuters take a bus or train.
Hampton next to U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,400: 540th of 6,085 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 25 | Tower Lakes IL | 1,201 | $154K | 2.0% | 2.8% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 35 | Bannockburn IL | 1,308 | $214K | 5.1% | 1.8% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 40 | Prestbury IL | 2,045 | $165K | 1.9% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 538 | Watertown WI | 1,938 | $100K | 3.9% | 3.5% | 2% | A− |
| 539 | Lake Holiday VA | 2,193 | $112K | 4.5% | 1.5% | 1% | A− |
| 540 | Hampton IL | 1,751 | $90K | 4.7% | 4.3% | 1% | A− |
| 541 | Roxbury CT | 2,328 | $124K | 3.7% | 3.8% | 12% | A− |
| 542 | Dahlgren Township MN | 1,333 | $85K | 4.5% | 4.6% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 6,085 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Hampton, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
12% of Hampton works in a bordering town
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Hampton workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hampton | – | A− | A− | 24 min | $90,406 |
| East Moline | 12% | C+ | A− | 19 min | $61,779 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to East Moline. Darker towns draw more of Hampton’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 Hampton: questions
What is the median household income in Hampton?
$90,406 (±$9,044) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hampton?
4.7%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hampton?
24 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hampton work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Davenport (13%, 10 mi), East Moline (12%, 3 mi), Moline (10%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Hampton walkable?
Hampton is more walkable than 82% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 7.3 out of 20, and 12% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Hampton without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hampton, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hampton
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.