With 0.4 jobs for every working resident, most of Marion Township works elsewhere
Measured by household income, Marion Township is ahead of 80% of U.S. towns. There are 622 jobs in Marion Township; 1,720 of its residents have a job. For jobs and income Marion Township is better than 83% of U.S. towns (A−); for walkability it is more walkable than 24% of U.S. towns (C−).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Marion Township, in brief
Jobs & income in Marion Township: the grade in detail
Household income is its strongest input ($104,924, U.S. $80,734); job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 52% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate and unemployment and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Marion Township could be anywhere from B− to A+.
28% of working residents work in Rockford
Where Marion Township clocks in
28% of workers
7% of workers
4% 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.
In and out of Marion Township on a workday
On a workday 1,637 residents head out to work, 83 work right here, and 539 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,800 people are in Marion Township on a workday afternoon, 28% 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.
Most jobs in Marion Township are in services
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Marion Township, 2013 → 2023: 760 → 622. 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 Marion Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 25 minutes each way, quicker than most of Illinois
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Marion Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,715 commuters (the 9% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Marion Township
About 23% 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.
The commute in Marion Township is mostly behind the wheel
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 10.8% across Illinois, on an EPA index of 4.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,890 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). 0.0% of Marion Township households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Marion Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Marion Township is 696th among 4,264 U.S. towns of 2,700 to 5,200
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 12 | South Barrington IL | 5,071 | $222K | 1.0% | 2.0% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 23 | Deer Park IL | 3,647 | $174K | 1.3% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 694 | Richfield OH | 3,720 | $83K | 4.4% | 3.8% | 7% | A− |
| 695 | Lodi WI | 3,190 | $118K | 5.1% | 3.9% | 10% | A− |
| 696 | Marion Township IL | 3,866 | $105K | 5.2% | 2.5% | 5% | A− |
| 697 | Chikaming Township MI | 2,752 | $84K | 5.5% | 0.0% | 18% | A− |
| 698 | Clinton Township PA | 2,824 | $85K | 5.3% | 1.9% | 9% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,264 | 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 Marion Township, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
The towns around Marion Township
The biggest share goes to Rockvale Township (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Marion Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marion Township | – | A− | C− | 25 min | $104,924 |
| Byron Township | under 2% | A− | B | 28 min | $90,069 |
| Pine Rock Township | under 2% | — | — | 24 min | — |
| Scott Township | under 2% | B | D | 34 min | $109,500 |
| Rockvale Township | 3% | A | D | 30 min | $125,156 |
| Rockford Township | under 2% | — | — | 22 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Pine Rock Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Rockford Township: not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Marion 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 Marion Township: questions
What is the median household income in Marion Township?
$104,924 (±$17,562) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Marion Township?
5.2%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Marion Township?
25 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Marion Township work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Rockford (28%, 14 mi), Byron (7%, 3 mi), Stillman Valley (4%, 2 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Marion Township walkable?
Marion Township is more walkable than 24% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 4.4 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Marion Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Marion Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Marion 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.