Photo: Jaylon Vermost · CC BY 4.0More people are out of work in Kewanee Township (11.7%) than in 97% of U.S. towns
Home is the office for 6% of workers, against 16% across Illinois. Kewanee Township grades D for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. Measured by household income, Kewanee Township is behind 87% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Kewanee Township
Kewanee Township and Kewanee trade workers both ways
Kewanee is the top workplace for Kewanee Township residents (38%) and also where the most people who work in Kewanee Township come from (53% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Kewanee Township makes and builds things
37% of the jobs based in Kewanee Township are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Kewanee Township residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 31%. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Kewanee Township are quick
The average trip to work takes 23 minutes, against 28 across Illinois. That’s about 38 hours a year less on the road than the typical Illinois worker. 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.
Kewanee Township’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
Job access by car holds Kewanee Township’s grade up (ahead of 26% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Kewanee Township could be anywhere from D− to D.
38% of working residents work in Kewanee
Where Kewanee Township clocks in
38% of workers
3% of workers
3% 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.
Making and building: 37% of jobs based in Kewanee Township
2,613 jobs are based in Kewanee Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Kewanee Township, 2013 → 2023: 2,433 → 2,613. 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 Kewanee Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Kewanee Township: about 23 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Kewanee Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,694 commuters (the 6% 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.
A workday in Kewanee Township: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 2,396 residents head out to work, 1,111 work right here, and 1,502 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.
0.75 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute 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.
Miles to work from Kewanee Township
About 23% 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.
Driving is how Kewanee Township gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Kewanee Township is more walkable than 67% of U.S. towns, #416 of 768 in Illinois. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 10.8% across Illinois, on an EPA index of 7.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 3,920 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). 14.7% of Kewanee Township households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Kewanee Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
U.S. towns of 6,600 to 12,800, and where Kewanee Township sits
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Ladue MO | 8,934 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.7% | 5% | A+ |
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| 7 | Long Grove IL | 8,343 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 19 | Riverside IL | 8,939 | $154K | 3.3% | 1.9% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 59 | Winnetka IL | 12,518 | $250K | 1.6% | 3.4% | 7% | A+ |
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| 2,769 | Harrisburg Township IL | 9,656 | $46K | 25.9% | 8.8% | 27% | D |
| 2,770 | Stuttgart AR | 7,525 | $49K | 23.1% | 10.5% | 60% | D |
| 2,771 | Kewanee Township IL | 9,494 | $51K | 19.5% | 11.7% | 32% | D |
| 2,772 | Orange Cove CA | 9,811 | $47K | 34.0% | 16.7% | 6% | D |
| 2,773 | Vernon TX | 9,747 | $51K | 18.6% | 11.8% | 54% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 2,831 | 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 Kewanee Township, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
How Kewanee Township compares with the towns next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Kewanee Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kewanee Township | – | D | B+ | 23 min | $50,528 |
| Neponset Township | under 2% | — | — | 27 min | — |
| Wethersfield Township | under 2% | B− | A− | 15 min | $62,149 |
| Burns Township | under 2% | — | — | 20 min | — |
| Annawan Township | under 2% | B+ | C+ | 24 min | $86,125 |
| Elmira Township | under 2% | — | — | 25 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Neponset Township, Burns Township and Elmira Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Kewanee Township’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 Kewanee Township: questions
What is the median household income in Kewanee Township?
$50,528 (±$5,622) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Kewanee Township?
19.5%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Kewanee Township?
23 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Kewanee Township work?
32% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Kewanee (38%, 2 mi), Geneseo (3%, 17 mi), Moline (3%, 33 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Kewanee Township walkable?
Kewanee Township is more walkable than 67% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 7.2 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Kewanee Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 15% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Kewanee Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Kewanee Township
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.