Farnsworth House · Photo: Victor Grigas · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Little Rock Township commutes out: there are 0.6 jobs for every working resident
Working from home is the commute for 8% of workers; Illinois has 16%. There are 4,325 jobs in Little Rock Township for 7,843 working residents. For jobs and income Little Rock Township is better than 59% of U.S. towns (B); for walkability it is more walkable than 44% of U.S. towns (C+).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Little Rock Township: the figures worth knowing
Little Rock Township’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Little Rock Township is Chicago, 46 miles away as the crow flies. 10% of working residents (769) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Stores, warehouses and trucking
44% of the jobs in Little Rock Township are in trade, transport and utilities, against 27% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
Why Little Rock Township gets the Jobs & income grade it does
Job access by car holds Little Rock Township’s grade up (ahead of 69% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (11.1%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on household income.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Little Rock Township could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
Half of Little Rock Township commutes less than 23 miles
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
What Little Rock Township’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Little Rock Township, 2014 → 2024: 3,891 → 4,325. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Little Rock Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A workday in Little Rock Township: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 7,072 residents head out to work, 771 work right here, and 3,554 people come in from elsewhere.
About 11,000 people are in Little Rock Township 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 2024, primary jobs.
10% of working residents work in Chicago
Where Little Rock Township clocks in
10% of workers
9% of workers
7% 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.
Getting to work from Little Rock Township takes about 28 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Little Rock Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 7,249 commuters (the 8% 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.
In Little Rock Township, most people drive to work
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 7,845 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). 0.9% of Little Rock Township households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Little Rock Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Little Rock Township is 1,287th of 2,362 U.S. towns of 10,000 to 20,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | New Albany OH | 11,803 | $238K | 1.4% | 0.9% | 10% | A+ |
| 3 | Plain Township OH | 13,257 | $219K | 2.1% | 0.8% | 10% | A+ |
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| 13 | Lake Forest IL | 19,731 | $235K | 3.5% | 1.8% | 12% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 20 | Western Springs IL | 13,588 | $230K | 1.3% | 3.1% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 26 | Deerfield IL | 19,642 | $182K | 2.8% | 2.7% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,285 | Plano IL | 12,677 | $86K | 10.2% | 4.8% | 7% | B |
| 1,286 | South San Jose Hills CA | 16,911 | $95K | 11.6% | 8.2% | 2% | B |
| 1,287 | Little Rock Township IL | 14,921 | $87K | 11.1% | 4.5% | 10% | B |
| 1,288 | Eastlake OH | 17,357 | $62K | 8.4% | 4.1% | 7% | B |
| 1,289 | Washington Township PA | 15,518 | $78K | 7.4% | 3.0% | 9% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 2,362 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 28% | 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 Little Rock Township, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
Little Rock Township and the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Sandwich (2%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Little Rock Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Little Rock Township | – | B | C+ | 28 min | $87,011 |
| Fox Township | under 2% | A | C | 29 min | $116,250 |
| Sandwich Township | under 2% | — | — | 27 min | — |
| Bristol Township | under 2% | A | B | 34 min | $109,481 |
| Big Rock Township | under 2% | A | D | 19 min | $158,250 |
| Sandwich | 2% | B | B+ | 27 min | $80,768 |
Same-state neighbors only. Sandwich Township: not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Little Rock 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 2024, 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 Little Rock Township: questions
What is the median household income in Little Rock Township?
$87,011 (±$12,817) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Little Rock Township?
11.1%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Little Rock Township?
28 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Little Rock Township work?
10% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Chicago (10%, 46 mi), Aurora (9%, 15 mi), Plano (7%, 1 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Little Rock Township walkable?
Little Rock Township is more walkable than 44% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 7.0 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Little Rock Township without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Little Rock Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Little Rock Township
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.