Photo: Ben Jacobson (Kranar Drogin) · CC BY 2.5With 0.2 jobs for every working resident, most of Monroe Township works elsewhere
Jobs and income earn Monroe Township A; getting around on foot earns it C−. Monroe Township has 110 jobs, against 592 working residents. Only 1% work in Monroe Township itself; outside it, Rockford draws the most (25%, 11 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Monroe Township
Monroe Township is a place people come home to
There are 110 jobs based in Monroe Township, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Monroe Township has about 950 people in it, 34% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Monroe Township workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 34 minutes each way, against 28 across Illinois. Over a year that’s about 261 hours of commuting, 46 more than the state’s typical 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 592 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Jobs & income in Monroe Township: the grade in detail
On income, poverty and job access, Monroe Township is better than 89% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate is its strongest input (1.3%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 63% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
Unemployment (1.2%) is left out: Monroe Township’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, Monroe Township could be anywhere from A− to A.
Monroe Township quiets down on a workday
On a workday 585 residents head out to work, 7 work right here, and 103 people come in from elsewhere.
About 950 people are in Monroe Township on a workday afternoon, 34% 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.
The daily trip from Monroe Township: about 34 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Monroe Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 517 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.
The places Monroe Township commutes to
Where Monroe Township clocks in
25% 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.
Making and building: 38% of jobs based in Monroe Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Monroe Township, 2013 → 2023: 93 → 110. 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 Monroe Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Monroe Township
About 22% 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.
In Monroe Township, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Monroe Township is more walkable than 16% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 10.8% across Illinois, on an EPA index of 3.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 574 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). 0.0% of Monroe Township households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Monroe Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 5,877 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900, Monroe Township comes 306th 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 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
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| 29 | Tower Lakes IL | 1,201 | $154K | 2.0% | 2.8% | <1% | A+ |
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| 32 | Third Lake IL | 1,103 | $150K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
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| 37 | Lily Lake IL | 1,073 | $140K | 0.2% | 8.9% | 0% | A+ |
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| 304 | West Mountain UT | 1,282 | $112K | 1.2% | 2.0% | 1% | A |
| 305 | Clearwater Township MN | 1,421 | $114K | 3.3% | 3.7% | 1% | A |
| 306 | Monroe Township IL | 1,428 | $93K | 1.3% | 1.2% | 1% | A |
| 307 | Pohocco Township NE | 1,296 | $100K | 2.1% | 0.0% | 3% | A |
| 308 | Stanton Township MN | 1,129 | $130K | 4.7% | 2.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | 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 Monroe Township, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
Monroe Township and its neighbors
The biggest share goes to Lynnville Township (2%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Monroe Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monroe Township | – | A | C− | 34 min | $93,056 |
| Scott Township | under 2% | B | D | 34 min | $109,500 |
| Franklin Township | under 2% | B− | C | 34 min | $88,431 |
| Lynnville Township | 2% | — | — | 31 min | — |
| Cherry Valley Township | under 2% | C+ | C | 23 min | $69,367 |
| Rockford Township | under 2% | — | — | 22 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Lynnville Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Rockford Township: not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Monroe 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 Monroe Township: questions
What is the median household income in Monroe Township?
$93,056 (±$16,626) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Monroe Township?
1.3%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Monroe Township?
34 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Monroe Township work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Rockford (25%, 11 mi), Rochelle (7%, 13 mi), Stillman Valley (4%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Monroe Township walkable?
Monroe Township is more walkable than 16% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 3.5 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Monroe Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Monroe Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Monroe 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.