Photo: Teemu08 · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Peotone commutes out: there are 0.4 jobs for every working resident
Household incomes here are higher than in 83% of U.S. towns. 822 jobs are based in Peotone for 2,121 working residents. Jobs and income earn Peotone A−; getting around on foot earns it B.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Peotone, in brief
No single place dominates Peotone’s commute
The biggest draw, Chicago, gets only 8% of working residents, and 62% work outside the top ten towns entirely. Peotone residents fan out across the region. The commute map ↓
Peotone’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Peotone is Chicago, 36 miles away as the crow flies. 8% of working residents (163) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Peotone empties out on a workday
About 2,900 people are in Peotone on a workday afternoon, 31% fewer than the 4,200 who live here: 1,900 head out to work and 640 come in. Day and night ↓
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.
Peotone’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Peotone is better than 84% of U.S. towns, #187 of 768 in Illinois. The poverty rate holds Peotone’s grade up (3.9%, U.S. 12.5%); unemployment pulls it down (4.6%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Peotone could be anywhere from B to A+.
8% of working residents work in Chicago
Where Peotone clocks in
8% 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.
Miles to work from Peotone
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.
Peotone on a workday afternoon
On a workday 1,935 residents head out to work, 186 work right here, and 636 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,900 people are in Peotone on a workday afternoon, 31% 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.
What Peotone’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Peotone, 2013 → 2023: 943 → 822. 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 Peotone’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Peotone: about 29 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Peotone workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,149 commuters (the 13% 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.
In Peotone, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Peotone is more walkable than 56% of U.S. towns, #505 of 768 in Illinois. Both inputs place Peotone near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,458 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% 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). 2.2% of Peotone households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Peotone’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Peotone is 597th among 3,962 U.S. towns of 3,000 to 5,700
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 14 | South Barrington IL | 5,071 | $222K | 1.0% | 2.0% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 24 | Deer Park IL | 3,647 | $174K | 1.3% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 595 | Lake Holiday IL | 5,641 | $108K | 2.9% | 2.4% | 2% | A− |
| 596 | Floyds Knobs IN | 4,515 | $126K | 4.1% | 5.1% | 2% | A− |
| 597 | Peotone IL | 4,225 | $109K | 3.9% | 4.6% | 9% | A− |
| 598 | South Harrison Township NJ | 3,479 | $140K | 5.1% | 5.0% | 3% | A− |
| 599 | Rockland Township PA | 3,704 | $110K | 1.1% | 4.7% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,962 | 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 Peotone, 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 Peotone: questions
What is the median household income in Peotone?
$108,523 (±$29,508) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Peotone?
3.9%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Peotone?
29 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Peotone work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Chicago (8%, 36 mi), Joliet (4%, 22 mi), University Park (3%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Peotone walkable?
Peotone is more walkable than 56% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 7.0 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Peotone without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Peotone, from the people who make the trip.
More of Peotone
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.