Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 4,076, settled in 1867.
Ludlow Township is a solid, middle-of-the-road choice. It grades C− overall, 665th of 767 graded towns in Illinois, with no subject far below average. Its best mark is incomes: the median household earns $55K. Its lowest everyday mark is in schools: its public schools trail 78% of Illinois towns on state tests and graduation. A typical home there costs about $150K, 2.3 years of the Champaign metro’s $66K median household income. Only 123 of Illinois’ 1,240 towns score lower on civic life. 14% of adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more in Ludlow Township, against 29% in Illinois’ towns and 29% across U.S. towns. The biggest park or preserve is Perdueville Pheasant Habitat Area, at 160 acres.
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Illinois), ordered by how far Ludlow Township is from typical.
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Census counts: 293 in 1880, a peak of 531 in 1970, 308 in 2020. The archive holds 4 old photos and papers going back to 2007 and 4 maps from 1924 on.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Ludlow Township. Close and well known come first.
18 mi LandmarkAmerican Football House
18 mi Stadium & arenaGies Memorial Stadium
5 mi MuseumOctave Chanute Aerospace Museum
35 mi City parkRobert Allerton Park
29 mi MuseumMonticello Railway Museum
18 mi TheatreKrannert Center for the Performing ArtsAmerican Football House: BanjoZebra, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Gies Memorial Stadium: T.J. Blakeman, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum: Chris Light (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0 · Robert Allerton Park: D. Finnigan, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Monticello Railway Museum: Daniel Schwen, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Krannert Center for the Performing Arts: Aries Liang, Public domain
Who provides power, water and the rest in Ludlow Township, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Sep 12, 2025.
Ordered by what stands out in Ludlow Township.
Ludlow Township is healthier than towns with similar incomes and has commutes shorter than most of Illinois.
Public schools: Rantoul City SD 137. One of its 2 schools is below, with the reason it’s listed. The 2 public schools in Ludlow Township teach 328 students between them.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eastlawn Elem SchoolLargest public elementary schoolGrades K–5 | Grades K–5 | 276 | D− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within IL on state tests and graduation
Against the 7,418 U.S. towns with household incomes like Ludlow Township’s, it is healthier than 59%, so its C isn’t only a matter of income.
The share of adults in Ludlow Township who smoke cigarettes: 17%. Among adults in the town, 20% worry about having enough food.
| Ludlow Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 13% | 14% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 13% | 14% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 17% | 17% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 22% | 18% | 19% |
| What stands out | Ludlow Township | IL |
|---|---|---|
| More older adults who have lost all their teeth | 16.7% | 10.3% |
| More smokers | 16.5% | 12.1% |
| More adults with COPD | 8.5% | 6.3% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
In July, afternoons reach 85°; in January, nights fall to 17°, and about 18 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
The FEMA hazard score for Ludlow Township comes to 35 of 100. Federal disaster aid has reached households in Ludlow Township once, in 1999. Expected losses in Ludlow Township break down as 38% from inland flooding and 30% from cold waves.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
The average commute for its 1,539 working residents takes 20.5 minutes, against 27.8 across Illinois. Jobs based here grew from 840 in 2013 to 1,162.
Half the trips to work are shorter than 15 miles. Since 2013, Ludlow Township has added 322 jobs, to 1,162 in 2023. Commuting out is the norm in the town: 9% of working residents work locally. The typical journey to work locally is 21 minutes.
| Ludlow Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 21 minutes | 26 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $55,000 | $83,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 7% | 8.4% | 9.6% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
For Ludlow Township, the trail network density is 0.1 miles per square mile. There are 2.9 miles of trail across 5 parks and preserves.
| Ludlow Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.1 miles per square mile | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 0.9% | 3.7% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Perdueville Pheasant Habitat Area | — | 160 |
| 2. Maplewood Sports Complex | 0.2 mi | 21 |
| 3. Brookhill Park | — | 14 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
For households in Ludlow Township, the share who live in a home they own is 54%. Its going rate for rent is $854 a month.
| Ludlow Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 54% | 75% | 73% |
| Median rent | $854 a month | $1,129 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
None within 15 miles of Ludlow Township; the nearest are
About 2 of every 100 Ludlow Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Illinois.
Village in Illinois, United States
Ludlow is a village in Champaign County, Illinois, United States. The population was 308 at the 2020 census.
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4 towns share a border with Ludlow Township.
| Town | IL rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ludlow Township | #665 | C− | B− | — | C− | C |
| Rantoul Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| East Bend Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Harwood Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Patton Township | #185 | A− | A− | — | B | B |
Ludlow Township and Patton Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Rantoul Township, East Bend Township and Harwood Township aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Ludlow Township with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Ludlow Township grades C− overall, better than 18% of U.S. towns and #665 of 767 in Illinois. It grades C for health and C− for schools. Schools is its weak spot, with a C−.
The typical home is worth about $151,000, 49% below the Illinois typical home. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B−.
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