Maple Park has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
There are 147 jobs in Maple Park, against 719 working residents. For jobs and income Maple Park is better than 84% of U.S. towns (A−); for walkability it is more walkable than 42% of U.S. towns (C+). Measured by household income, Maple Park is ahead of 82% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Maple Park stands out on work
Maple Park is a place people come home to
There are 147 jobs based in Maple Park, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Maple Park has about 950 people in it, 38% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Maple Park workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 38 minutes each way, against 28 across Illinois. Over a year that’s about 291 hours of commuting, 77 more than the state’s typical worker. 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 719 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Maple Park earns its Jobs & income grade
All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Maple Park’s grade. It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
Unemployment (4.0%) is left out: Maple Park’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, Maple Park could be anywhere from B to A+.
How a workday changes Maple Park
On a workday 717 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 145 people come in from elsewhere.
About 950 people are in Maple Park on a workday afternoon, 38% 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.
Maple Park’s commute takes about 38 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 12.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Maple Park workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 715 commuters (the 14% 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.
8% of working residents work in DeKalb
Where Maple Park clocks in
8% of workers
5% 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.
Making and building: 40% of jobs based in Maple Park
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Maple Park, 2013 → 2023: 121 → 147. 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 Maple Park’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Short hops and long hauls from Maple Park
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.
In Maple Park, the car does most of the work
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 10.8% across Illinois, on an EPA index of 5.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 836 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). 2.6% of Maple Park households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Maple Park’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Maple Park is 490th among 5,794 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,100
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
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| 26 | Tower Lakes IL | 1,201 | $154K | 2.0% | 2.8% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 29 | Third Lake IL | 1,103 | $150K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 39 | Bannockburn IL | 1,308 | $214K | 5.1% | 1.8% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 488 | Oriole Beach FL | 2,005 | $88K | 1.4% | 1.7% | 2% | A− |
| 489 | Grandview OH | 1,382 | $105K | 7.5% | 10.3% | 0% | A− |
| 490 | Maple Park IL | 1,523 | $107K | 7.0% | 4.0% | <1% | A− |
| 491 | Locke Township MI | 1,809 | $106K | 5.4% | 2.6% | <1% | A− |
| 492 | Trenton WI | 1,212 | $99K | 1.1% | 0.9% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,794 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Maple Park, 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 Maple Park: questions
What is the median household income in Maple Park?
$107,045 (±$15,657) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Maple Park?
7.0%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Maple Park?
38 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Maple Park work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are DeKalb (8%, 7 mi), Sycamore (5%, 7 mi), St. Charles (5%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Maple Park walkable?
Maple Park is more walkable than 42% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 5.7 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Maple Park without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Maple Park, from the people who make the trip.
More of Maple Park
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.