Kincaid has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
Employers in Kincaid report 236 jobs, and 554 of its residents work somewhere. The two grades for Kincaid are C for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. Only 4% work in Kincaid itself; outside it, Springfield draws the most (24%, 19 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Kincaid
Kincaid’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty and job access, Kincaid is better than 27% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Kincaid’s grade up (ahead of 42% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (15.5%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (9.5%) is left out: Kincaid’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, Kincaid could be anywhere from D to B.
The distance from Kincaid to work
About 32% 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.
Who commutes out of Kincaid, and who commutes in
On a workday 532 residents head out to work, 22 work right here, and 214 people come in from elsewhere.
About 990 people are in Kincaid on a workday afternoon, 24% 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.
Where Kincaid goes to work
Where Kincaid clocks in
24% of workers
17% 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 Kincaid: what the 236 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Kincaid, 2013 → 2023: 195 → 236. 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 Kincaid’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Kincaid: about 26 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Kincaid workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 494 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.
Getting around Kincaid: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Kincaid is more walkable than 44% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.5% 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 557 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). 4.7% of Kincaid households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Kincaid’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Kincaid is 3,270th among 5,400 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,800
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 28 | Tower Lakes IL | 1,201 | $154K | 2.0% | 2.8% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 31 | Third Lake IL | 1,103 | $150K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 36 | Lily Lake IL | 1,073 | $140K | 0.2% | 8.9% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,268 | Mabscott WV | 1,259 | $58K | 16.7% | 5.6% | <1% | C |
| 3,269 | Verona Township MI | 1,184 | $60K | 8.4% | 0.7% | 5% | C |
| 3,270 | Kincaid IL | 1,310 | $65K | 15.5% | 9.5% | 4% | C |
| 3,271 | Nashville IN | 1,273 | $52K | 7.2% | 1.7% | 18% | C |
| 3,272 | Tye TX | 1,264 | $48K | 10.7% | 0.7% | 5% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | 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 Kincaid, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
How Kincaid compares with the towns next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Kincaid workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kincaid | – | C | C+ | 26 min | $64,821 |
| Jeisyville | under 2% | — | — | 27 min | — |
| Bulpitt | under 2% | — | — | 28 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Jeisyville and Bulpitt: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Kincaid’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 Kincaid: questions
What is the median household income in Kincaid?
$64,821 (±$30,865) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Kincaid?
15.5%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Kincaid?
26 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Kincaid work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Springfield (24%, 19 mi), Taylorville (17%, 6 mi), Decatur (4%, 32 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Kincaid walkable?
Kincaid is more walkable than 44% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 7.2 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Kincaid without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Kincaid, from the people who make the trip.
More of Kincaid
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.