Photo: IvoShandor · CC BY-SA 3.0Marseilles has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.5 for each
Household incomes here are lower than in 77% of U.S. towns. There are 886 jobs in Marseilles, against 1,913 working residents. Marseilles grades D for jobs and income and B− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Marseilles: the figures worth knowing
Marseilles’ Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Marseilles is better than 15% of U.S. towns, #726 of 768 in Illinois. Job access by car holds Marseilles’ grade up (ahead of 47% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (21.5%, U.S. 12.5%).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Marseilles could be anywhere from D to C+.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Marseilles
About 30% 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.
Who works in Marseilles, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 1,799 residents head out to work, 114 work right here, and 772 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,800 people are in Marseilles on a workday afternoon, 21% 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.
12% of working residents work in Ottawa
Where Marseilles clocks in
12% of workers
5% 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.
Jobs in Marseilles: what the 886 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Marseilles, 2013 → 2023: 989 → 886. 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 Marseilles’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 31 minutes each way, longer than most of Illinois
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Marseilles workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,627 commuters (the 10% 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.
Few in Marseilles walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Marseilles is more walkable than 48% of U.S. towns, #552 of 768 in Illinois. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 10.8% across Illinois.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,816 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). 9.6% of Marseilles households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Marseilles’ commuters take a bus or train.
Marseilles places 3,280th of 3,753 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 3,400 to 6,500
| # | 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 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 16 | South Barrington IL | 5,071 | $222K | 1.0% | 2.0% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 26 | Deer Park IL | 3,647 | $174K | 1.3% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,278 | Carrollton Township MI | 5,585 | $50K | 34.5% | 8.4% | 4% | D |
| 3,279 | Zapata TX | 4,897 | $45K | 32.5% | 2.1% | 14% | D |
| 3,280 | Marseilles IL | 4,809 | $58K | 21.5% | 7.5% | 6% | D |
| 3,281 | Sauk Centre MN | 4,663 | $63K | 19.5% | 6.5% | 34% | D |
| 3,282 | Clairton PA | 5,876 | $37K | 33.0% | 8.2% | 5% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 3,753 | 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 Marseilles, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
The towns around Marseilles
The biggest share goes to Brookfield Township (2%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Marseilles workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marseilles | – | D | B− | 31 min | $58,217 |
| Manlius Township | under 2% | C | B | 30 min | $68,967 |
| Brookfield Township | 2% | C+ | D− | 27 min | $83,958 |
| Fall River Township | under 2% | — | — | 34 min | — |
| Rutland Township | under 2% | B− | B+ | 28 min | $91,406 |
Same-state neighbors only. Fall River Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Marseilles’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 Marseilles: questions
What is the median household income in Marseilles?
$58,217 (±$13,056) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Marseilles?
21.5%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Marseilles?
31 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Marseilles work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Ottawa (12%, 8 mi), Morris (5%, 14 mi), Seneca (4%, 3 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Marseilles walkable?
Marseilles is more walkable than 48% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 7.4 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Marseilles without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Marseilles, from the people who make the trip.
More of Marseilles
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.