Photo: User:Visviva · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.3 jobs for every working resident, most of Locust Township works elsewhere
Jobs and income earn Locust Township C+; getting around on foot earns it C−. 318 jobs are based in Locust Township; 959 of its residents have a job. Home is the office for 1% of workers, against 16% across Illinois.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Locust Township: the gist
The jobs in Locust Township pay better than its residents’ jobs
91% of the jobs based in Locust Township pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), against 56% of the jobs Locust Township residents hold. 98% of the jobs here are held by people who live outside Locust Township. The jobs ↓
A big share show a job far from home
43% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Few Locust Township workers work from home
Only 1% 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 959 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Locust Township’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Locust Township is better than 40% of U.S. towns, #570 of 768 in Illinois. The poverty rate holds Locust Township’s grade up (8.0%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 25% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (5.8%) is left out: Locust Township’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, Locust Township could be anywhere from D to B+.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Locust Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Locust Township, 2013 → 2023: 26 → 318. 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 Locust Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Miles to work from Locust Township
About 43% 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.
Time on the road from Locust Township: about 22 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Locust Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 836 commuters (the 1% 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.
Locust Township by day and by night
On a workday 952 residents head out to work, 7 work right here, and 311 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,500 people are in Locust Township on a workday afternoon, 20% 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.
9% of working residents work in Assumption
Where Locust Township clocks in
9% of workers
8% 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.
Most of Locust Township commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Locust Township is more walkable than 23% of U.S. towns, #709 of 768 in Illinois. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 10.8% across Illinois, on an EPA index of 4.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 842 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). 0.7% of Locust Township households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Locust Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 4,562 U.S. towns of 2,200 to 4,200, Locust Township comes 2,693rd 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 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 20 | Deer Park IL | 3,647 | $174K | 1.3% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,691 | Perezville TX | 2,237 | $48K | 10.5% | 9.0% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,692 | Carrollton OH | 3,052 | $56K | 14.9% | 2.2% | 22% | C+ |
| 2,693 | Locust Township IL | 3,144 | $71K | 8.0% | 5.8% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,694 | Patoka Township IN | 2,759 | $67K | 16.2% | 1.9% | 4% | C+ |
| 2,695 | Colon Township MI | 3,336 | $66K | 9.2% | 3.5% | 10% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,562 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Locust Township, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
The towns around Locust Township
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Locust Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Locust Township | – | C+ | C− | 22 min | $70,565 |
| Assumption Township | under 2% | — | — | 25 min | — |
| Johnson Township | under 2% | — | — | 29 min | — |
| Rosamond Township | under 2% | — | — | — | — |
| May Township | under 2% | B+ | D− | 23 min | $97,543 |
Same-state neighbors only. Assumption Township: not graded. Johnson Township and Rosamond Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Locust 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 Locust Township: questions
What is the median household income in Locust Township?
$70,565 (±$21,583) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Locust Township?
8.0%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Locust Township?
22 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Locust Township work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Assumption (9%, 8 mi), Pana (8%, 8 mi), Springfield (7%, 32 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Locust Township walkable?
Locust Township is more walkable than 23% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 4.0 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Locust Township without a car?
0% 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 Locust Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Locust 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.