Photo: Ben Jacobson (Kranar Drogin) · CC BY 2.5Most of Mount Morris Township commutes out: there are 0.2 jobs for every working resident
The two grades for Mount Morris Township are C+ for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. There are 246 jobs in Mount Morris Township; 1,348 of its residents have a job. Measured by household income, Mount Morris Township is behind 88% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Mount Morris Township and work: the main findings
Mount Morris Township is a place people come home to
There are 246 jobs based in Mount Morris Township, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Mount Morris Township has about 2,500 people in it, 30% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Mount Morris Township than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Mount Morris Township fell from 389 in 2013 to 246 in 2023, −37%. 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 ↓
Commutes from Mount Morris Township are quick
The average trip to work takes 21 minutes, against 28 across Illinois. That’s about 54 hours a year less on the road than the typical Illinois worker, and quicker than any town next door (29 to 32 minutes). Time on the road ↓
Mount Morris Township’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Mount Morris Township is Rockford, 24 miles away as the crow flies. 11% of working residents (149) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
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.
What’s behind Mount Morris Township’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Mount Morris Township is better than 36% of U.S. towns, #591 of 768 in Illinois. Unemployment holds Mount Morris Township’s grade up (2.8%, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($49,531, U.S. $80,734).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Mount Morris Township could be anywhere from D to B+.
The daily flow of workers through Mount Morris Township
On a workday 1,301 residents head out to work, 47 work right here, and 199 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,500 people are in Mount Morris Township on a workday afternoon, 30% 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.
What Mount Morris Township’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mount Morris Township, 2013 → 2023: 389 → 246. 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 Mount Morris Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Mount Morris Township takes about 21 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mount Morris Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,322 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.
How far Mount Morris Township goes to work
About 28% 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.
11% of working residents work in Rockford
Where Mount Morris Township clocks in
11% of workers
10% of workers
6% 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.
Driving is how Mount Morris Township gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Mount Morris Township is more walkable than 69% of U.S. towns, #400 of 768 in Illinois. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 6.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 10.8% across Illinois, on an EPA index of 6.6.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,392 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). 15.8% of Mount Morris Township households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Mount Morris Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
2,914th of 4,474: where Mount Morris Township ranks among U.S. towns of 2,500 to 4,900
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 23 | Deer Park IL | 3,647 | $174K | 1.3% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 103 | Lakewood IL | 4,293 | $174K | 3.5% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,912 | Montgomery TX | 3,105 | $73K | 9.6% | 7.2% | 3% | C+ |
| 2,913 | Dardanelle AR | 4,521 | $51K | 11.1% | 3.5% | 17% | C+ |
| 2,914 | Mount Morris Township IL | 3,639 | $50K | 12.6% | 2.8% | 3% | C+ |
| 2,915 | Hancock ME | 2,593 | $72K | 8.2% | 4.3% | 6% | C+ |
| 2,916 | Attica Township MI | 4,729 | $75K | 13.0% | 5.6% | 2% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,474 | 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 Mount Morris Township, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
The towns around Mount Morris Township
The biggest share goes to Rockvale Township (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Mount Morris Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Morris Township | – | C+ | B+ | 21 min | $49,531 |
| Pine Creek Township | under 3% | — | — | 32 min | — |
| Maryland Township | under 3% | — | — | 31 min | — |
| Lincoln Township | under 3% | — | — | 29 min | — |
| Rockvale Township | 3% | A | D | 30 min | $125,156 |
Same-state neighbors only. Pine Creek Township, Maryland Township and Lincoln Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Mount Morris 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 Mount Morris Township: questions
What is the median household income in Mount Morris Township?
$49,531 (±$15,759) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mount Morris Township?
12.6%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mount Morris Township?
21 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mount Morris Township work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Rockford (11%, 24 mi), Oregon (10%, 7 mi), Dixon (6%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Mount Morris Township walkable?
Mount Morris Township is more walkable than 69% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 6.6 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Mount Morris Township without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 16% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mount Morris Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mount Morris 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.