Photo: User:Visviva · CC BY-SA 4.0Patton Township has lower unemployment (1.9%) than 86% of U.S. towns
Working residents average 26 minutes each way (Illinois 28, U.S. 26). Jobs and income earn Patton Township B; getting around on foot earns it B. About one in five stay in Patton Township for work; outside it, Paxton is the main destination (21%, 2 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Patton Township and work: the main findings
Jobs & income in Patton Township: the grade in detail
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Patton Township is better than 58% of U.S. towns, #441 of 768 in Illinois. Unemployment holds Patton Township’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 35% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Patton Township could be anywhere from C+ to B+.
Out of Patton Township to work: where people go
Where Patton Township clocks in
21% of workers
11% of workers
7% 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.
The workday shuffle in and out of Patton Township
On a workday 1,882 residents head out to work, 558 work right here, and 1,252 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4,500 people are in Patton Township on a workday afternoon, 12% fewer than live here.
0.74 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 2023, primary jobs.
Inside Patton Township’s 1,810 jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Patton Township, 2013 → 2023: 1,546 → 1,810. 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 Patton Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Patton Township takes about 26 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Patton Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,224 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.
Patton Township’s commute, mile by mile
About 25% 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.
In Patton Township, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Patton Township is more walkable than 63% of U.S. towns, #451 of 768 in Illinois. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 2.2% 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 2,490 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). 6.2% of Patton Township households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Patton Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 3,600 to 6,900, Patton Township ranks 1,672nd of 3,627 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 17 | South Barrington IL | 5,071 | $222K | 1.0% | 2.0% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 32 | Deer Park IL | 3,647 | $174K | 1.3% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,670 | Delmar MD | 4,896 | $85K | 10.0% | 4.1% | 1% | B |
| 1,671 | Flat Rock NC | 3,643 | $95K | 7.6% | 5.1% | 3% | B |
| 1,672 | Patton Township IL | 5,104 | $67K | 7.7% | 1.9% | 23% | B |
| 1,673 | Yosemite Lakes CA | 5,288 | $98K | 7.3% | 2.7% | 7% | B |
| 1,674 | Laguna Beach FL | 3,830 | $77K | 5.5% | 2.8% | 4% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,627 | 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 Patton Township, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
Patton Township and the towns next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Patton Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patton Township | – | B | B | 26 min | $66,750 |
| Button Township | under 2% | — | — | — | — |
| Wall Township | under 2% | — | — | 30 min | — |
| Ludlow Township | under 2% | B | C+ | 21 min | $55,012 |
| Dix Township | under 2% | — | — | 26 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Button Township, Wall Township and Dix Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Patton 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 Patton Township: questions
What is the median household income in Patton Township?
$66,750 (±$9,628) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Patton Township?
7.7%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Patton Township?
26 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Patton Township work?
23% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Paxton (21%, 2 mi), Champaign (11%, 24 mi), Urbana (7%, 23 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Patton Township walkable?
Patton Township is more walkable than 63% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 8.1 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Patton Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Patton Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Patton 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.