Most of Moweaqua commutes out: there are 0.5 jobs for every working resident
2% of workers work from home (Illinois 16%). Moweaqua has 382 jobs; 787 of its residents have a job. For jobs and income Moweaqua is better than 60% of U.S. towns (B); for walkability it is more walkable than 67% of U.S. towns (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 Moweaqua
Few Moweaqua workers work from home
Only 2% of workers work from home, against 16% across Illinois. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
Many jobs in Moweaqua pay little
27% of the jobs based in Moweaqua pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Moweaqua are quick
The average trip to work takes 22 minutes, against 28 across Illinois. That’s about 46 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 787 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Moweaqua earns its Jobs & income grade
The poverty rate holds Moweaqua’s grade up (3.4%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 38% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (2.9%) is left out: Moweaqua’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, Moweaqua could be anywhere from B− to B+.
The trip to work from Moweaqua: about 22 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Moweaqua workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 884 commuters (the 2% 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.
What Moweaqua’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Moweaqua, 2013 → 2023: 225 → 382. 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 Moweaqua’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who leaves Moweaqua for work, and who comes in
On a workday 715 residents head out to work, 72 work right here, and 310 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Moweaqua on a workday afternoon, 23% 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.
22% of working residents work in Decatur
Where Moweaqua clocks in
7% 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.
How far it is to work from Moweaqua
About 24% 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.
The commute in Moweaqua is mostly behind the wheel
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 10.8% across Illinois, on an EPA index of 6.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 899 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). 6.8% of Moweaqua households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Moweaqua’s commuters take a bus or train.
Moweaqua next to U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300: 1,597th of 5,760 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 24 | Tower Lakes IL | 1,201 | $154K | 2.0% | 2.8% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 34 | Bannockburn IL | 1,308 | $214K | 5.1% | 1.8% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 39 | Prestbury IL | 2,045 | $165K | 1.9% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,595 | Rose Township OH | 1,497 | $89K | 8.3% | 2.9% | 2% | B |
| 1,596 | Cass Township PA | 1,781 | $82K | 6.8% | 6.1% | 5% | B |
| 1,597 | Moweaqua IL | 1,735 | $70K | 3.4% | 2.9% | 9% | B |
| 1,598 | Bangor WI | 1,564 | $81K | 8.6% | 2.7% | 3% | B |
| 1,599 | Franklin Township IN | 1,326 | $95K | 7.6% | 0.0% | <1% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 5,760 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Moweaqua, 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 Moweaqua: questions
What is the median household income in Moweaqua?
$69,625 (±$10,142) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Moweaqua?
3.4%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Moweaqua?
22 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Moweaqua work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Decatur (22%, 17 mi), Springfield (7%, 35 mi), Sullivan (4%, 22 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Moweaqua walkable?
Moweaqua is more walkable than 67% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 6.8 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Moweaqua without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Moweaqua, from the people who make the trip.
More of Moweaqua
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.