Loran Township has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
Employers in Loran Township report 285 jobs; 643 of its residents have a job. Loran Township grades B− for jobs and income and D for walkability. Home is the office for 8% of workers (Illinois 16%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Loran Township apart on work
How Loran Township earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Loran Township is better than 46% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Loran Township’s grade up (5.1%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 14% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (0.8%) is left out: Loran Township’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Loran Township could be anywhere from C− to B.
19% of working residents work in Freeport
Where Loran Township clocks in
19% of workers
8% of workers
8% 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.
A workday in Loran Township: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 591 residents head out to work, 52 work right here, and 233 people come in from elsewhere.
About 960 people are in Loran Township on a workday afternoon, 27% 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 Loran Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Loran Township, 2013 → 2023: 324 → 285. 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 Loran Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Loran Township: about 25 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Loran Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 545 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.
Miles to work from Loran Township
About 25% 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.
Getting around Loran Township: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Loran Township is more walkable than 13% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Loran Township near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 592 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). 2.8% of Loran Township households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Loran Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Loran Township is 2,102nd of 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+ |
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| 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,100 | Dimock Township PA | 1,224 | $88K | 8.2% | 7.9% | 3% | B− |
| 2,101 | Remington IN | 1,392 | $76K | 8.9% | 1.6% | 9% | B− |
| 2,102 | Loran Township IL | 1,313 | $73K | 5.1% | 0.8% | 8% | B− |
| 2,103 | Charlevoix Township MI | 1,797 | $81K | 7.1% | 2.2% | 11% | B− |
| 2,104 | Hurley MS | 1,305 | $133K | 12.6% | 4.7% | 1% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 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 Loran Township, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
13% of Loran Township works in a town next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Loran Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loran Township | – | B− | D | 25 min | $73,000 |
| Florence Township | 2% | B− | C | 17 min | $90,698 |
| Jefferson Township | under 2% | — | — | 19 min | — |
| Erin Township | 3% | — | — | 28 min | — |
| Cherry Grove-Shannon Township | under 2% | C− | B+ | 27 min | $74,191 |
| Kent Township | 8% | — | — | 16 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Jefferson Township, Erin Township and Kent Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Kent Township. Darker towns draw more of Loran 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 Loran Township: questions
What is the median household income in Loran Township?
$73,000 (±$18,195) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Loran Township?
5.1%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Loran Township?
25 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Loran Township work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Freeport (19%, 9 mi), Lena (8%, 10 mi), Kent Township (8%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Loran Township walkable?
Loran Township is more walkable than 13% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.2 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Loran Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Loran Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Loran 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.