Photo: TCP04 · CC BY 4.0Most of Mazon Township commutes out: there are 0.3 jobs for every working resident
Home is the office for 3% of workers; Illinois has 16%. 241 jobs are based in Mazon Township for 694 working residents. Mazon Township grades B 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
The commute and the jobs: Mazon Township in brief
Fewer jobs are based in Mazon Township than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Mazon Township fell from 436 in 2013 to 241 in 2023, −45%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
Few Mazon Township workers work from home
Only 3% of workers work from home, against 16% across Illinois. Almost everyone here travels to a job. 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 694 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Mazon Township’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Mazon Township is better than 58% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Mazon Township’s grade. It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (2.1%) is left out: Mazon Township’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, Mazon Township could be anywhere from C to A−.
What Mazon Township’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mazon Township, 2013 → 2023: 436 → 241. 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 Mazon Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 24 minutes from Mazon Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mazon Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 837 commuters (the 3% 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.
In and out of Mazon Township on a workday
On a workday 670 residents head out to work, 24 work right here, and 217 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,000 people are in Mazon Township on a workday afternoon, 31% 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 Morris
Where Mazon Township clocks in
12% of workers
9% 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.
The distance from Mazon Township to work
About 25% 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.
Most trips from Mazon Township start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Mazon Township is more walkable than 46% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 10.8% across Illinois, on an EPA index of 4.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 859 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). 5.9% of Mazon Township households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Mazon Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,000 to 2,000, Mazon Township ranks 1,718th of 6,308 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 32 | Tower Lakes IL | 1,201 | $154K | 2.0% | 2.8% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 35 | Third Lake IL | 1,103 | $150K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 40 | Lily Lake IL | 1,073 | $140K | 0.2% | 8.9% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,716 | New Berlin IL | 1,361 | $70K | 6.4% | 5.5% | 4% | B |
| 1,717 | Hillcrest IL | 1,210 | $81K | 9.6% | 3.9% | 3% | B |
| 1,718 | Mazon Township IL | 1,482 | $82K | 8.1% | 2.1% | 3% | B |
| 1,719 | Tornado WV | 1,114 | $83K | 8.8% | 0.4% | 1% | B |
| 1,720 | Woodward IA | 1,426 | $66K | 7.0% | 1.1% | 3% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 6,308 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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 Mazon Township, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
Mazon Township and its neighbors
The biggest share goes to Wauponsee Township (2%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Mazon Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mazon Township | – | B | B− | 24 min | $82,273 |
| Maine Township | under 2% | — | — | 28 min | — |
| Vienna Township | under 2% | — | — | 32 min | — |
| Wauponsee Township | 2% | A− | D | 23 min | $117,928 |
| Goodfarm Township | under 2% | — | — | 17 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Maine Township, Vienna Township and Goodfarm Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Mazon 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 Mazon Township: questions
What is the median household income in Mazon Township?
$82,273 (±$20,593) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mazon Township?
8.1%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mazon Township?
24 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mazon Township work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Morris (12%, 10 mi), Chicago (9%, 56 mi), Joliet (4%, 24 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Mazon Township walkable?
Mazon Township is more walkable than 46% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 4.8 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Mazon Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mazon Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mazon 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.