Hubbard House · Photo: IvoShandor · CC BY 2.5Hudson has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Jobs and income earn Hudson A; getting around on foot earns it D. There are 127 jobs in Hudson; 750 of its residents have a job. Measured by household income, Hudson is ahead of 84% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Hudson, in a few figures
Hudson is a place people come home to
There are 127 jobs based in Hudson, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Hudson has about 1,100 people in it, 36% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
38% of Hudson works in Bloomington
282 working residents, 38%, have their main job in Bloomington, 9 miles away. That’s 38 times as many as work in Hudson itself. 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 750 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Inside Hudson’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Hudson is better than 94% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate is its strongest input (2.3%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 66% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
Unemployment (1.5%) is left out: Hudson’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, Hudson could be anywhere from A− to A+.
Who commutes out of Hudson, and who commutes in
On a workday 743 residents head out to work, 7 work right here, and 120 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Hudson on a workday afternoon, 36% 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.
38% of working residents work in Bloomington
Where Hudson clocks in
38% of workers
16% 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 place that makes things: 36% of Hudson’s jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hudson, 2013 → 2023: 148 → 127. 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 Hudson’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Hudson: about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hudson workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 776 commuters (the 16% 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.
Hudson’s commute, mile by mile
About 21% 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.
Most trips from Hudson start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Hudson is more walkable than 14% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Hudson near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 920 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 Hudson households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Hudson’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,400, Hudson ranks 237th 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 235 | Rutland WI | 1,910 | $105K | 2.5% | 0.6% | 1% | A |
| 236 | Fairmount TN | 2,110 | $137K | 3.7% | 0.0% | 1% | A |
| 237 | Hudson IL | 1,750 | $110K | 2.3% | 1.5% | 1% | A |
| 238 | Jefferson Township IN | 1,918 | $101K | 2.0% | 0.0% | 2% | A |
| 239 | Springdale WI | 2,021 | $129K | 2.9% | 2.5% | 2% | 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 Hudson, 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 Hudson: questions
What is the median household income in Hudson?
$110,000 (±$24,724) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hudson?
2.3%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hudson?
24 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 16% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hudson work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Bloomington (38%, 9 mi), Normal (16%, 6 mi), Gridley (3%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Hudson walkable?
Hudson is more walkable than 14% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.3 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Hudson 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 Hudson, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hudson
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.