Most of Oneco Township commutes out: there are 0.4 jobs for every working resident
Oneco Township has 196 jobs; 520 of its residents have a job. The two grades for Oneco Township are C for jobs and income and C for walkability. Only 5% work in Oneco Township itself; outside it, Freeport draws the most (20%, 14 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Why Oneco Township gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty and job access, Oneco Township is better than 34% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Oneco Township’s grade.
Unemployment (8.6%) is left out: Oneco 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, Oneco Township could be anywhere from C− to B−.
The daily commute in and out of Oneco Township
On a workday 493 residents head out to work, 27 work right here, and 169 people come in from elsewhere.
About 920 people are in Oneco Township on a workday afternoon, 26% 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.
Where Oneco Township’s working residents head each day
Where Oneco Township clocks in
20% of workers
14% of workers
5% 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.
What Oneco Township’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Oneco Township, 2013 → 2023: 247 → 196. 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 Oneco Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Oneco Township: about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Oneco Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 574 commuters (the 11% 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 Oneco Township goes to work
About 23% 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.
Most of Oneco Township commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Oneco Township is more walkable than 34% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 10.8% across Illinois, on an EPA index of 5.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 647 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). 12.5% of Oneco Township households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Oneco Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Oneco Township is 2,489th of 4,866 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 25 | Tower Lakes IL | 1,201 | $154K | 2.0% | 2.8% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 28 | Third Lake IL | 1,103 | $150K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 33 | Lily Lake IL | 1,073 | $140K | 0.2% | 8.9% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,487 | New Middletown OH | 1,486 | $50K | 12.3% | 4.0% | 1% | C |
| 2,488 | Spring City UT | 1,051 | $71K | 6.4% | 5.5% | 1% | C |
| 2,489 | Oneco Township IL | 1,239 | $70K | 11.1% | 8.6% | 5% | C |
| 2,490 | Owen Township IN | 1,630 | $75K | 8.0% | 1.1% | 1% | C |
| 2,491 | Larrabee WI | 1,251 | $81K | 14.4% | 2.3% | 1% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | 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 Oneco Township, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
How Oneco Township compares with the towns next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Oneco Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oneco Township | – | C | C | 24 min | $69,630 |
| Buckeye Township | under 2% | B− | C | 29 min | $76,094 |
| Rock Grove Township | under 2% | B+ | D− | 37 min | $99,500 |
| Winslow Township | under 2% | — | — | 25 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Winslow Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Oneco 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 Oneco Township: questions
What is the median household income in Oneco Township?
$69,630 (±$14,134) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Oneco Township?
11.1%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Oneco Township?
24 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Oneco Township work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Freeport (20%, 14 mi), Monroe (14%, 8 mi), Chicago (5%, 111 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Oneco Township walkable?
Oneco Township is more walkable than 34% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 5.5 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Oneco Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 12% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Oneco Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Oneco 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.