Marissa Academy · Photo: Nyttend · Public domainWith 0.5 jobs for every working resident, most of Marissa works elsewhere
Employers in Marissa report 405 jobs, against 807 working residents. Jobs and income earn Marissa C−; getting around on foot earns it C−. Household incomes here are lower than in 81% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Marissa
On income, poverty and job access, Marissa is better than 23% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Marissa’s grade up (ahead of 40% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($54,814, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (14.2%) is left out: Marissa’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Marissa could be anywhere from D to B−.
Who commutes out of Marissa, and who commutes in
On a workday 756 residents head out to work, 51 work right here, and 354 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Marissa on a workday afternoon, 23% 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.
10% of working residents work in Belleville
Where Marissa clocks in
10% of workers
6% 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: 32% of jobs based in Marissa
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Marissa, 2013 → 2023: 432 → 405. 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 Marissa’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Marissa: about 30 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Marissa workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 459 commuters (the 12% 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.
How far Marissa goes to work
About 17% 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 Marissa, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Marissa is more walkable than 22% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Marissa 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 522 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). 7.3% of Marissa households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Marissa’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Marissa ranks: 3,876th of 5,760 U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 24 | Tower Lakes IL | 1,201 | $154K | 2.0% | 2.8% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 34 | Bannockburn IL | 1,308 | $214K | 5.1% | 1.8% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 39 | Prestbury IL | 2,045 | $165K | 1.9% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,874 | Marshfield VT | 1,567 | $60K | 9.2% | 3.9% | 4% | C− |
| 3,875 | Pacific City OR | 1,303 | $93K | 16.9% | 0.0% | 12% | C− |
| 3,876 | Marissa IL | 1,724 | $55K | 12.8% | 14.2% | 6% | C− |
| 3,877 | Grand Marais MN | 1,290 | $71K | 10.1% | 0.9% | 51% | C− |
| 3,878 | Kings Bay Base GA | 2,210 | $78K | 21.2% | 28.7% | 0% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,760 | 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 Marissa, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
Work in the towns next to Marissa
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Marissa workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marissa | – | C− | C− | 30 min | $54,814 |
| Marissa Township | under 2% | C+ | C− | 29 min | $68,250 |
| Lenzburg Township | under 2% | — | — | 30 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Lenzburg Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Marissa’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 Marissa: questions
What is the median household income in Marissa?
$54,814 (±$18,444) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Marissa?
12.8%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Marissa?
30 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Marissa work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Belleville (10%, 22 mi), St. Louis (6%, 37 mi), Mascoutah (4%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Marissa walkable?
Marissa is more walkable than 22% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 5.7 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Marissa without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Marissa, from the people who make the trip.
More of Marissa
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.