Photo: jdkscoop · CC BY-SA 3.0Hodgkins has 18.9 jobs for every working resident: 12,492 people commute in to work
Jobs & income B−: better than 52% of U.S. towns on income, poverty and job access.
Walkability B: more walkable than 56% of U.S. towns.
Household incomes here are lower than in 70% of U.S. towns. Working residents average 17 minutes each way (Illinois 28, U.S. 26). Only 7% work in Hodgkins; the top destination outside it is Chicago (26%, 10 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Hodgkins
Hodgkins fills up on a workday
Hodgkins has 12,540 jobs, 18.9 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 13,000 people are in town, 9 times the 1,500 who live here. Day and night ↓
Stores, warehouses and trucking
85% of the jobs in Hodgkins are in trade, transport and utilities, against 28% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
Hodgkins and Chicago trade workers both ways
Chicago is the top workplace for Hodgkins residents (26%) and also where the most people who work in Hodgkins come from (25% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
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 662 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Hodgkins’ Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Hodgkins is better than 52% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Hodgkins’ grade up (ahead of 98% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (15.6%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (3.9%) is left out: Hodgkins’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Hodgkins could be anywhere from C to A.
Hodgkins’s population more than triples on a workday
On a workday 614 residents head out to work, 48 work right here, and 12,492 people come in from elsewhere.
About 13,000 people are in Hodgkins on a workday afternoon, 803% more than live here.
18.9 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than 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.
What the 12,540 jobs in Hodgkins are
12,540 jobs are based in Hodgkins. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Hodgkins’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hodgkins, 2013 → 2023: 8,654 → 12,540. 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.
Where Hodgkins’s workers come from
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Hodgkins clocks in
26% of workers
3% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
About 17 minutes each way, quicker than most of Illinois
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hodgkins workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 534 commuters (the 12% who work from home are left out). Across Illinois: 78% drive alone, 7% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
Half of Hodgkins commutes less than 10 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Most trips from Hodgkins start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Hodgkins is more walkable than 56% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 10.8% across Illinois, on an EPA index of 5.6.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 605 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 9.6 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 93% 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). 8.0% of Hodgkins households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Hodgkins’ commuters take a bus or train.
Hodgkins is 2,063rd of 6,308 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 2,000 on jobs and income
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Hodgkins, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 32 | Tower Lakes IL | 1,201 | $154K | 2.0% | 2.8% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 35 | Third Lake IL | 1,103 | $150K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 40 | Lily Lake IL | 1,073 | $140K | 0.2% | 8.9% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,061 | Springville Township PA | 1,483 | $77K | 3.1% | 3.2% | 2% | B− |
| 2,062 | Indian Springs NV | 1,180 | $87K | 3.7% | 1.2% | 7% | B− |
| 2,063 | Hodgkins IL | 1,480 | $62K | 15.6% | 3.9% | 7% | B− |
| 2,064 | Glen Dale WV | 1,404 | $82K | 10.6% | 2.5% | 6% | B− |
| 2,065 | Bay Township MI | 1,139 | $81K | 4.4% | 3.6% | 2% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 6,308 | 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.
Hodgkins and the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Countryside (3%). Darker towns draw more of Hodgkins’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Hodgkins workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hodgkins | – | B− | B | 17 min | $62,417 |
| Countryside | 3% | B | A | 25 min | $80,968 |
| Willow Springs | 2% | A | B | 28 min | $103,583 |
| Bedford Park | under 2% | — | — | 28 min | — |
| McCook | 3% | — | — | 22 min | — |
| Justice | under 2% | C | A | 32 min | $57,170 |
Same-state neighbors only. Bedford Park and McCook: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
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 Hodgkins: questions
What is the median household income in Hodgkins?
$62,417 (±$31,767) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hodgkins?
15.6%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hodgkins?
17 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hodgkins work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Chicago (26%, 10 mi), McCook (3%, 2 mi), Burr Ridge (3%, 3 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Hodgkins walkable?
Hodgkins is more walkable than 56% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 5.6 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Hodgkins without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hodgkins, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hodgkins
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.