Photo: TCP04 · CC BY 4.0With 0.4 jobs for every working resident, most of Hebron works elsewhere
There are 327 jobs in Hebron; 800 of its residents have a job. Jobs and income earn Hebron B+; getting around on foot earns it C. For 5% of workers, the job is at home; Illinois has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Hebron in brief
Hebron’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Hebron is Chicago, 58 miles away as the crow flies. 8% of working residents (61) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Hebron than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Hebron fell from 522 in 2013 to 327 in 2023, −37%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
Hebron makes and builds things
37% of the jobs based in Hebron are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Hebron residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 26%. 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 800 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Hebron’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Hebron is better than 75% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Hebron’s grade. It also does well on household income and job access by car.
Unemployment (3.5%) is left out: Hebron’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, Hebron could be anywhere from B− to A.
Short hops and long hauls from Hebron
About 19% 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.
Goods jobs make up 37% of work in Hebron
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hebron, 2013 → 2023: 522 → 327. 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 Hebron’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many people are in Hebron by day
On a workday 752 residents head out to work, 48 work right here, and 279 people come in from elsewhere.
About 920 people are in Hebron on a workday afternoon, 34% 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.
8% of working residents work in Chicago
Where Hebron clocks in
8% of workers
7% of workers
5% 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.
A commute of about 28 minutes in Hebron
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hebron workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 644 commuters (the 5% 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.
Most of Hebron commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Hebron is more walkable than 33% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 10.8% across Illinois.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 677 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% 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 20% 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). 3.0% of Hebron households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Hebron’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Hebron is 806th among 5,877 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 804 | Holding Township MN | 1,233 | $99K | 2.1% | 2.3% | 3% | A− |
| 805 | Jackson Township OH | 1,034 | $99K | 1.2% | 7.6% | 1% | A− |
| 806 | Hebron IL | 1,392 | $85K | 6.6% | 3.5% | 6% | B+ |
| 807 | Sea Bright NJ | 1,460 | $143K | 6.9% | 6.0% | 5% | B+ |
| 808 | Ozawkie Township KS | 1,638 | $99K | 1.6% | 2.1% | 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 Hebron, 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 Hebron: questions
What is the median household income in Hebron?
$85,375 (±$23,150) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hebron?
6.6%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hebron?
28 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hebron work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Chicago (8%, 58 mi), Woodstock (7%, 11 mi), McHenry (5%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Hebron walkable?
Hebron is more walkable than 33% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 6.7 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Hebron without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hebron, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hebron
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.