Photo: Dual Freq · CC BY 2.5Ludlow Township has lower unemployment (2.0%) than 85% of U.S. towns
Jobs and income earn Ludlow Township B; getting around on foot earns it C+. Household incomes here are lower than in 81% of U.S. towns. About one in ten work in Ludlow Township itself; outside it, Rantoul draws the most (24%, 4 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Ludlow Township apart
Ludlow Township makes and builds things
77% of the jobs based in Ludlow Township are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Ludlow Township residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 23%. The jobs ↓
Ludlow Township and Rantoul trade workers both ways
Rantoul is the top workplace for Ludlow Township residents (24%) and also where the most people who work in Ludlow Township come from (34% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Commutes from Ludlow Township are quick
The average trip to work takes 21 minutes, against 28 across Illinois. That’s about 54 hours a year less on the road than the typical Illinois worker. Time on the road ↓
Ludlow Township has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Ludlow Township went from 840 in 2013 to 1,162 in 2023, +38%. The jobs ↓
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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Inside Ludlow Township’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Ludlow Township is better than 56% of U.S. towns, #463 of 768 in Illinois. Unemployment holds Ludlow Township’s grade up; household income pulls it down ($55,012, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on the poverty rate.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Ludlow Township could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
Making and building: 77% of jobs based in Ludlow Township
1,162 jobs are based in Ludlow Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ludlow Township, 2013 → 2023: 840 → 1,162. 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 Ludlow Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where Ludlow Township goes to work
Where Ludlow Township clocks in
19% of workers
11% 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.
About 21 minutes each way for Ludlow Township’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ludlow Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,302 commuters (the 19% 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.
Who commutes out of Ludlow Township, and who commutes in
On a workday 1,406 residents head out to work, 133 work right here, and 1,029 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.76 per resident).
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 distance from Ludlow Township to work
About 26% 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.
Ludlow Township is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Ludlow Township is more walkable than 37% of U.S. towns, #622 of 768 in Illinois. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 10.8% across Illinois, on an EPA index of 4.9.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,603 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 8.6% of Ludlow Township households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Ludlow Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Ludlow Township ranks: 1,851st of 4,023 U.S. towns of 2,900 to 5,500
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
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| 13 | South Barrington IL | 5,071 | $222K | 1.0% | 2.0% | 4% | A+ |
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| 25 | Deer Park IL | 3,647 | $174K | 1.3% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,849 | Smithville-Sanders IN | 3,299 | $75K | 5.6% | 4.4% | 2% | B |
| 1,850 | Roebuck SC | 2,902 | $51K | 11.2% | 1.6% | 2% | B |
| 1,851 | Ludlow Township IL | 4,076 | $55K | 7.0% | 2.0% | 9% | B |
| 1,852 | Olive Township IN | 3,418 | $82K | 5.6% | 7.4% | 16% | B |
| 1,853 | Harris Township MN | 3,364 | $79K | 4.3% | 3.5% | 4% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 4,023 | 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 Ludlow Township, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
Ludlow Township and the towns next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Ludlow Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ludlow Township | – | B | C+ | 21 min | $55,012 |
| Rantoul Township | under 2% | — | — | 19 min | — |
| East Bend Township | under 2% | — | — | 39 min | — |
| Harwood Township | under 2% | — | — | 26 min | — |
| Patton Township | under 2% | B | B | 26 min | $66,750 |
Same-state neighbors only. Rantoul Township: not graded. East Bend Township and Harwood Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Ludlow 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 Ludlow Township: questions
What is the median household income in Ludlow Township?
$55,012 (±$13,103) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Ludlow Township?
7.0%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ludlow Township?
21 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 19% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Ludlow Township work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Rantoul (24%, 4 mi), Champaign (19%, 18 mi), Urbana (11%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Ludlow Township walkable?
Ludlow Township is more walkable than 37% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 4.9 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Ludlow Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Ludlow Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ludlow 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.