Eli Ulery House · Photo: Nyttend · Public domainAbout half of Mount Zion Township’s working residents commute to Decatur
Measured by household income, Mount Zion Township is ahead of 79% of U.S. towns. Jobs and income earn Mount Zion Township A−; getting around on foot earns it C−. About one in ten work in Mount Zion Township itself; outside it, Decatur draws the most (47%, 9 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Mount Zion Township stands out on work
Mount Zion Township makes and builds things
41% of the jobs based in Mount Zion Township are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Mount Zion Township residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 26%. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
Mount Zion Township’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Mount Zion Township is better than 84% of U.S. towns, #190 of 768 in Illinois. The poverty rate holds Mount Zion Township’s grade up (3.5%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down. It also does well on household income and unemployment.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Mount Zion Township could be anywhere from B to A.
The towns that employ Mount Zion Township’s residents
Where Mount Zion Township clocks in
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.
Goods, not services: 41% of the jobs in Mount Zion Township
1,756 jobs are based in Mount Zion Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mount Zion Township, 2014 → 2024: 1,411 → 1,756. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Mount Zion Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Mount Zion Township by day and by night
On a workday 2,707 residents head out to work, 330 work right here, and 1,426 people come in from elsewhere.
About 5,700 people are in Mount Zion Township on a workday afternoon, 18% fewer than live here.
0.58 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
About 24 minutes to work from Mount Zion Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mount Zion Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,004 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 commute from Mount Zion Township, by distance
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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Most trips from Mount Zion Township start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Mount Zion Township is more walkable than 24% of U.S. towns, #702 of 768 in Illinois. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 10.8% across Illinois.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 3,339 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). 4.3% of Mount Zion Township households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Mount Zion Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Mount Zion Township next to U.S. towns of 4,900 to 9,500: 654th of 3,227 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 12 | South Barrington IL | 5,071 | $222K | 1.0% | 2.0% | 3% | A+ |
| 13 | Long Grove IL | 8,343 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 25 | Riverside IL | 8,939 | $154K | 3.3% | 1.9% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 652 | East Haddam CT | 9,043 | $108K | 4.4% | 3.6% | 12% | A− |
| 653 | Uniontown OH | 7,920 | $93K | 7.8% | 2.3% | 2% | A− |
| 654 | Mount Zion Township IL | 7,018 | $103K | 3.5% | 2.5% | 11% | A− |
| 655 | Upton MA | 8,560 | $156K | 3.2% | 6.5% | 6% | A− |
| 656 | Reading Township PA | 5,958 | $95K | 4.2% | 3.0% | 4% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,227 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 6% | 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 Zion Township, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
Mount Zion Township and the towns next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Mount Zion Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Zion Township | – | A− | C− | 24 min | $102,500 |
| Dora Township | under 1% | — | — | 24 min | — |
| Long Creek Township | under 1% | B+ | B− | 20 min | $85,279 |
| South Wheatland Township | under 1% | A− | D | 21 min | $94,427 |
| Penn Township | under 1% | — | — | — | — |
| South Macon Township | under 1% | B | C+ | 28 min | $77,734 |
Same-state neighbors only. Dora Township and Penn Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Mount Zion 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 2024, 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 Zion Township: questions
What is the median household income in Mount Zion Township?
$102,500 (±$6,346) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mount Zion Township?
3.5%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mount Zion Township?
24 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mount Zion Township work?
11% work in town.
Is Mount Zion Township walkable?
Mount Zion Township is more walkable than 24% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 6.4 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Mount Zion Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mount Zion Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mount Zion Township
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.