Grand View Drive · Photo: Blututh at en.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0For about two in five of its working residents, Peoria Heights is a commute to Peoria
The two grades for Peoria Heights are B− for jobs and income and A− for walkability. Transit is limited for a town this walkable: about 2.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident at the evening peak, against 5.0 in Peoria. For 7% of workers, the job is at home, where Illinois as a whole has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The short version on getting to work from Peoria Heights
Peoria Heights trades workers with the towns around it
Peoria Heights has about as many jobs (2,639) as working residents (2,795), but they are mostly different people: 2,595 residents leave for work each day while 2,439 people come in. Only 8% of the jobs in Peoria Heights are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Peoria Heights are quick
The average trip to work takes 17 minutes, against 28 across Illinois. That’s about 84 hours a year less on the road than the typical Illinois worker. Time on the road ↓
Most Peoria Heights residents work close to home
64% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home, about two in three. How far ↓
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.
Inside Peoria Heights’ Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Peoria Heights is better than 55% of U.S. towns, #472 of 768 in Illinois. Job access by car holds Peoria Heights’ grade up (ahead of 79% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($60,099, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on the poverty rate.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Peoria Heights could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
How many people are in Peoria Heights by day
On a workday 2,595 residents head out to work, 200 work right here, and 2,439 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.94 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Where the trip to work from Peoria Heights ends
Where Peoria Heights clocks in
Lines 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.
Time on the road from Peoria Heights: about 17 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Peoria Heights workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,869 commuters (the 7% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Peoria Heights
About 19% 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.
What work there is in Peoria Heights: 2,639 jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Peoria Heights, 2014 → 2024: 2,316 → 2,639. 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 Peoria Heights’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Good to walk, short on transit: Peoria Heights
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Peoria Heights is more walkable than 81% of U.S. towns, #260 of 768 in Illinois. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 2.4% 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 3,098 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). Nearly all residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 52% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 2.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 69% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 9.4% of Peoria Heights households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Peoria Heights’ commuters take a bus or train.
Peoria Heights places 1,756th of 3,527 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 4,000 to 7,800
| # | 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 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 13 | South Barrington IL | 5,071 | $222K | 1.0% | 2.0% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 37 | Northfield IL | 5,632 | $162K | 3.2% | 2.2% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 75 | Grandwood Park IL | 5,262 | $127K | 2.8% | 2.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,754 | Butte AK | 4,085 | $101K | 6.7% | 3.6% | — | B− |
| 1,755 | Mount Hermon VA | 4,155 | $81K | 6.9% | 4.4% | 2% | B− |
| 1,756 | Peoria Heights IL | 5,767 | $60K | 8.2% | 4.4% | 7% | B− |
| 1,757 | Tonganoxie KS | 6,208 | $80K | 13.2% | 4.5% | 12% | B− |
| 1,758 | Richwoods Township IL | 5,771 | $60K | 8.2% | 4.4% | 7% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,527 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 19% | 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 Peoria Heights, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
Next door is work for 44% of Peoria Heights
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Peoria Heights workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peoria Heights | – | B− | A− | 17 min | $60,099 |
| Richwoods Township | under 2% | B− | A− | 17 min | $60,099 |
| Peoria City Township | under 2% | C− | A | 18 min | $52,321 |
| Peoria | 44% | C | A | 18 min | $59,410 |
| Spring Bay Township | under 2% | B | D | 22 min | $75,846 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Peoria. Darker towns draw more of Peoria Heights’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 Peoria Heights: questions
What is the median household income in Peoria Heights?
$60,099 (±$7,033) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Peoria Heights?
8.2%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Peoria Heights?
17 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Peoria Heights work?
7% work in town.
Is Peoria Heights walkable?
Peoria Heights is more walkable than 81% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 14.0 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Peoria Heights without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. 52% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Peoria Heights, from the people who make the trip.
More of Peoria Heights
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.