Photo: Scottinalton · CC BY-SA 3.0Unemployment in Jerseyville (0.4%) is lower than in 98% of U.S. towns
For jobs and income Jerseyville is better than 61% of U.S. towns (B); for walkability it is more walkable than 60% of U.S. towns (B). About one in five stay in Jerseyville for work; outside it, Alton is the main destination (7%, 18 miles). Working residents average 25 minutes each way (Illinois 28, U.S. 26).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Jerseyville
Unemployment holds Jerseyville’s grade up; the poverty rate pulls it down (12.3%, U.S. 12.5%).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Jerseyville could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
Who leaves, who stays, who comes in
On a workday 2,662 residents head out to work, 767 work right here, and 2,094 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.83 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
The towns that employ Jerseyville’s residents
Where Jerseyville clocks in
7% of workers
4% 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.
Jobs in Jerseyville: what the 2,861 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Jerseyville, 2013 → 2023: 3,075 → 2,861. 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 Jerseyville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Jerseyville’s commute takes about 25 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Jerseyville workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,064 commuters (the 11% 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.
How far it is to work from Jerseyville
About 18% 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.
Few in Jerseyville walk, bike or ride to work
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 3,426 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). 6.0% of Jerseyville households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Jerseyville’s commuters take a bus or train.
1,425th of 2,981: where Jerseyville ranks among U.S. towns of 5,900 to 11,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 11 | Long Grove IL | 8,343 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 24 | Riverside IL | 8,939 | $154K | 3.3% | 1.9% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 61 | Itasca IL | 9,488 | $114K | 2.0% | 2.6% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,423 | Marysville MI | 9,868 | $67K | 6.4% | 3.4% | 12% | B |
| 1,424 | Enoch UT | 8,847 | $81K | 1.5% | 3.8% | 6% | B |
| 1,425 | Jerseyville IL | 8,409 | $74K | 12.3% | 0.4% | 22% | B |
| 1,426 | Sellersburg IN | 10,305 | $72K | 6.9% | 5.5% | 5% | B |
| 1,427 | Warwick NY | 6,534 | $90K | 5.5% | 5.6% | 12% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 2,981 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Jerseyville, 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 Jerseyville: questions
What is the median household income in Jerseyville?
$73,529 (±$13,195) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Jerseyville?
12.3%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Jerseyville?
25 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Jerseyville work?
22% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Alton (7%, 18 mi), Jersey Township (4%, 2 mi), St. Louis (4%, 34 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Jerseyville walkable?
Jerseyville is more walkable than 60% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 7.5 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Jerseyville without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Jerseyville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Jerseyville
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.