Photo: Nyttend · Public domainLamotte Township has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
Working from home is the commute for 4% of workers, where Illinois as a whole has 16%. There are 259 jobs in Lamotte Township, and 667 of its residents work somewhere. Lamotte Township grades C+ for jobs and income and B for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Lamotte Township at work: what stands out
Lamotte Township and Robinson trade workers both ways
Robinson is the top workplace for Lamotte Township residents (32%) and also where the most people who work in Lamotte Township come from (15% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Commutes from Lamotte Township are quick
The average trip to work takes 21 minutes, against 28 across Illinois. That’s about 54 hours a year less on the road than the typical Illinois worker, and quicker than any town next door (25 to 50 minutes). Time on the road ↓
Few Lamotte Township workers work from home
Only 4% of workers work from home, against 16% across Illinois. Almost everyone here travels to a job. 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; with 667 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Lamotte Township’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Lamotte Township is better than 35% of U.S. towns. Unemployment holds Lamotte Township’s grade up (2.3%, U.S. 5.2%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 14% of U.S. towns).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Lamotte Township could be anywhere from D to B−.
32% of working residents work in Robinson
Where Lamotte Township clocks in
32% of workers
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.
From Lamotte Township, about 21 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lamotte Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 986 commuters (the 4% 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.
The daily commute in and out of Lamotte Township
On a workday 628 residents head out to work, 39 work right here, and 220 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,500 people are in Lamotte Township on a workday afternoon, 22% 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.
The kinds of work in Lamotte Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lamotte Township, 2013 → 2023: 276 → 259. 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 Lamotte Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Lamotte Township’s workers travel
About 28% 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 Lamotte Township gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Lamotte Township is more walkable than 61% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 8.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 10.8% across Illinois, on an EPA index of 5.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,029 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). 6.4% of Lamotte Township households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Lamotte Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Lamotte Township next to U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,500: 3,070th of 5,656 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 33 | Bannockburn IL | 1,308 | $214K | 5.1% | 1.8% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 38 | Prestbury IL | 2,045 | $165K | 1.9% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,068 | Chamberlain SD | 2,453 | $77K | 12.1% | 3.2% | 38% | C+ |
| 3,069 | Hammond WI | 1,857 | $83K | 17.4% | 7.8% | 5% | C+ |
| 3,070 | Lamotte Township IL | 1,858 | $64K | 13.5% | 2.3% | 6% | C+ |
| 3,071 | Wayne Township OH | 2,390 | $86K | 11.2% | 18.8% | 2% | C+ |
| 3,072 | Madison Township PA | 1,570 | $77K | 14.8% | 5.6% | 2% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,656 | 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 Lamotte Township, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
Around Lamotte Township: the bordering towns
The biggest share goes to Montgomery Township (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Lamotte Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lamotte Township | – | C+ | B | 21 min | $64,034 |
| Montgomery Township | 3% | — | — | 50 min | — |
| Hutsonville Township | under 2% | — | — | 30 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Montgomery Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Hutsonville Township: not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Lamotte 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 Lamotte Township: questions
What is the median household income in Lamotte Township?
$64,034 (±$7,765) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lamotte Township?
13.5%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lamotte Township?
21 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lamotte Township work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Robinson (32%, 6 mi), Robinson Township (7%, 7 mi), Palestine (4%, 1 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Lamotte Township walkable?
Lamotte Township is more walkable than 61% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 5.5 out of 20, and 8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Lamotte Township 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 Lamotte Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lamotte 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.