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Mount Olive Township gives you more for your money than most places: homes are within reach, about $107K for a typical one, or 1.3 years of the St. Louis metro’s $80K median household income. It grades C+ overall, 563rd of 767 graded towns in Illinois. The low prices come with trade-offs. The median household income is $63K, and 13% of residents live below the poverty line. Only 88 of Illinois’ 1,284 towns score lower on walkability. Union Miners Cemetery is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Where Mount Olive Township beats most towns.
Where Mount Olive Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Illinois), ordered by how far Mount Olive Township is from typical.
Its grades run from A+ for cost of living (better than 99% of comparable towns) to D for walkability (better than 11%), so the C+ overall blends very different results.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 709 in 1880, a peak of 3,503 in 1920, 2,015 in 2020. The archive holds 5 old photos and papers going back to 1880 and 2 maps from 1912 on.
1 place on the National Register of Historic Places.
Who provides power, water and the rest in Mount Olive Township, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Sep 12, 2025.
Ordered by what stands out in Mount Olive Township.
Mount Olive Township is healthier than towns with similar incomes and sends most of its workers to Springfield and beyond, but it has little public open land.
Mount Olive Township has 356 jobs for its 1,437 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out.
Most working residents leave Mount Olive Township for work: only 6% work in town. Mount Olive Township’s average trip to work is 29 minutes, above both the Illinois town median (26 minutes) and the median of U.S. towns (25 minutes). The top destinations are Springfield (8%), Litchfield (8%) and Mount Olive (5%).
| Mount Olive Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $63,000 | $83,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 29 minutes | 26 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 6.2% | 8.4% | 8% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Its public schools are run by Mount Olive CUSD 5. Its two schools are below.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mt Olive Elementary SchoolLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–8 | Grades PK–8 | 328 | C |
| Mt Olive High SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 151 | B+ |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within IL on state tests and graduation
Mount Olive Township has chilly winters and warm summers. Mount Olive Township’s July high is 87°F, against 84°F in Illinois’ towns and 85°F across U.S. towns.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Against the 9,528 U.S. towns with household incomes like Mount Olive Township’s, it is healthier than 56%, so its C+ isn’t only a matter of income.
Mount Olive Township beats the Illinois average on 2 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 9. 17% of adults smoke cigarettes in Mount Olive Township.
| Mount Olive Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 13% | 14% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 13% | 14% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 38% | 35% | 35% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 17% | 17% |
| What stands out | Mount Olive Township | IL |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer uninsured adults | 7.5% | 9.9% |
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 11% | 13.2% |
| More adults with COPD | 9.2% | 6.3% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Expected storm and flood damage is higher than in 54% of U.S. communities. One flood insurance claim has been paid in Mount Olive Township since 1979.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Just 55 of its 11,636 acres are conserved, so there is little public open land in Mount Olive Township itself; its outdoors grade is D.
0.5 miles of trail in 2 parks and preserves.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. J.C. Niemann Park | — | 3 |
| 2. Hagerman Park | — | 2 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
None within 15 miles of Mount Olive Township; the nearest are
About 4 of every 100 Mount Olive Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Illinois.
City in Illinois, United States
Mount Olive is a city in Macoupin County, Illinois, United States. The population was 2,015 at the 2020 census. The city is part of the Metro East region within the St. Louis metropolitan area.
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3 towns share a border with Mount Olive Township.
| Town | IL rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Olive Township | #563 | C+ | A+ | — | C | C+ |
| Cahokia Township | #546 | C+ | A+ | — | C | C+ |
| Walshville Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Staunton Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Mount Olive Township and Cahokia Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Walshville Township and Staunton Township aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Mount Olive Township with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Mount Olive Township grades C+ overall, better than 35% of U.S. towns and #563 of 767 in Illinois. It grades C+ for health and C for schools. Walkability is its weak spot, with a D.
Not for the area. Louis, MO-IL metro area). Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades A+.
