Lovington has 0.1 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Household incomes here are lower than in 81% of U.S. towns. Employers in Lovington report 58 jobs for 447 working residents. The two grades for Lovington are C− for jobs and income and D− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Lovington
What’s behind Lovington’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Lovington is better than 15% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Lovington’s grade.
Unemployment (1.1%) is left out: Lovington’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, Lovington could be anywhere from D to C+.
Who leaves Lovington for work, and who comes in
On a workday 442 residents head out to work, 5 work right here, and 53 people come in from elsewhere.
About 620 people are in Lovington on a workday afternoon, 39% 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.
20% of working residents work in Decatur
Where Lovington clocks in
10% of workers
9% 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 Lovington: what the 58 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lovington, 2013 → 2023: 77 → 58. 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 Lovington’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 24 minutes from Lovington
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lovington workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 435 commuters (the 6% 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 Lovington
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.
For most of Lovington, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Lovington is more walkable than 3% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Lovington 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 464 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). 3.3% of Lovington households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Lovington’s commuters take a bus or train.
Lovington places 2,290th of 3,133 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 19 | Tower Lakes IL | 1,201 | $154K | 2.0% | 2.8% | <1% | A+ |
| 20 | Third Lake IL | 1,103 | $150K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 24 | Lily Lake IL | 1,073 | $140K | 0.2% | 8.9% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,288 | Malaga Township OH | 1,016 | $65K | 12.1% | 12.3% | 1% | C− |
| 2,289 | Guyan Township OH | 1,123 | $69K | 14.9% | 6.7% | 4% | C− |
| 2,290 | Lovington IL | 1,010 | $56K | 13.9% | 1.1% | 1% | C− |
| 2,291 | Flemington PA | 1,256 | $54K | 17.6% | 1.8% | 5% | C− |
| 2,292 | Davis Township MO | 1,102 | $56K | 9.6% | 3.7% | 8% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | 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 Lovington, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
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 Lovington: questions
What is the median household income in Lovington?
$55,556 (±$7,687) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lovington?
13.9%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lovington?
24 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lovington work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Decatur (20%, 19 mi), Arthur (10%, 9 mi), Sullivan (9%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Lovington walkable?
Lovington is more walkable than 3% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 4.1 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Lovington 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 Lovington, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lovington
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.