Photo: Jud McCranie · CC BY-SA 4.0Martinsville has lower household incomes than 71% of U.S. towns
Working from home is the commute for 4% of workers, where Illinois as a whole has 16%. 23.4% of residents live below the poverty line (Illinois 11.8%). Martinsville grades D for jobs and income and B− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Martinsville apart
Martinsville and Casey trade workers both ways
Casey is the top workplace for Martinsville residents (23%) and also where the most people who work in Martinsville come from (20% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Martinsville makes and builds things
42% of the jobs based in Martinsville are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Martinsville residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 25%. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 440 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The figures behind Martinsville’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Martinsville is better than 9% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Martinsville’s grade up ($61,833, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate pulls it down.
Unemployment (4.6%) is left out: Martinsville’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, Martinsville could be anywhere from D− to C+.
23% of working residents work in Casey
Where Martinsville clocks in
23% 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.
A place that makes things: 42% of Martinsville’s jobs are in goods
389 jobs are based in Martinsville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Martinsville, 2014 → 2024: 333 → 389. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Martinsville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who commutes out of Martinsville, and who commutes in
On a workday 406 residents head out to work, 34 work right here, and 355 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 (0.88 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
About 25 minutes to work from Martinsville
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Martinsville workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 571 commuters (the 5% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Martinsville
About 24% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
In Martinsville, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Martinsville is more walkable than 54% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 10.8% across Illinois, on an EPA index of 6.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 598 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). 12.6% of Martinsville households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Martinsville’s commuters take a bus or train.
3,163rd of 3,771: where Martinsville ranks among U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
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| 21 | Tower Lakes IL | 1,201 | $154K | 2.0% | 2.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 23 | Third Lake IL | 1,103 | $150K | 2.0% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 28 | Lily Lake IL | 1,073 | $140K | 0.2% | 8.9% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,161 | Girardville PA | 1,325 | $42K | 20.8% | 5.1% | 1% | D |
| 3,162 | Siren WI | 1,026 | $63K | 20.6% | 2.6% | 2% | D |
| 3,163 | Martinsville IL | 1,083 | $62K | 23.4% | 4.6% | 8% | D |
| 3,164 | Brocton NY | 1,310 | $59K | 24.6% | 5.8% | 5% | D |
| 3,165 | Sardinia OH | 1,101 | $58K | 25.9% | 3.8% | 3% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Martinsville, 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 2024, 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 Martinsville: questions
What is the median household income in Martinsville?
$61,833 (±$19,429) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Martinsville?
23.4%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Martinsville?
25 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Martinsville work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Casey (23%, 6 mi), Greenup (6%, 16 mi), Charleston (5%, 19 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Martinsville walkable?
Martinsville is more walkable than 54% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 6.1 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Martinsville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 13% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Martinsville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Martinsville
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.