Minier has 0.4 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Only 4% stay in Minier for work; outside it, Peoria is the main destination (12%, 27 miles). Minier has 158 jobs, and 407 of its residents work somewhere. Jobs and income earn Minier B+; getting around on foot earns it B.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Minier
Minier’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Minier is Peoria, 27 miles away as the crow flies. 12% of working residents (50) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Commutes from Minier are quick
The average trip to work takes 23 minutes, against 28 across Illinois. That’s about 38 hours a year less on the road than the typical Illinois worker. 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 407 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Inside Minier’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Minier is better than 69% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Minier’s grade up (6.4%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 50% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (3.3%) is left out: Minier’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, Minier could be anywhere from C+ to A.
Half of Minier commutes less than 19 miles
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.
About 23 minutes each way for Minier’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Minier workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 531 commuters (the 13% 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.
The workday shuffle in and out of Minier
On a workday 392 residents head out to work, 15 work right here, and 143 people come in from elsewhere.
About 890 people are in Minier on a workday afternoon, 22% 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.
Where the trip to work from Minier ends
Where Minier clocks in
Lines 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.
What Minier’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Minier, 2013 → 2023: 262 → 158. 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 Minier’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Most of Minier commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Minier is more walkable than 58% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 10.8% across Illinois, on an EPA index of 6.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 608 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). 2.3% of Minier households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Minier’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Minier is 653rd of 3,771 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% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 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% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 651 | Lake Mary Township MN | 1,185 | $103K | 3.7% | 0.0% | 2% | B+ |
| 652 | Washington Township OH | 1,268 | $105K | 6.7% | 0.0% | 1% | B+ |
| 653 | Minier IL | 1,138 | $89K | 6.4% | 3.3% | 4% | B+ |
| 654 | West Windsor VT | 1,355 | $109K | 3.7% | 3.4% | 5% | B+ |
| 655 | Hollywood Township MN | 1,041 | $84K | 6.6% | 1.5% | 2% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | 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 Minier, 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 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 Minier: questions
What is the median household income in Minier?
$88,542 (±$22,122) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Minier?
6.4%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Minier?
23 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Minier work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Peoria (12%, 27 mi), Hopedale (9%, 6 mi), Morton (6%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Minier walkable?
Minier is more walkable than 58% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 6.3 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Minier without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Minier, from the people who make the trip.
More of Minier
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.