Photo: Nyttend · Public domainAt 3.3%, unemployment in Pinckneyville is lower than in 65% of U.S. towns
7% of workers work from home, next to 16% for Illinois as a whole. The two grades for Pinckneyville are C+ for jobs and income and C− for walkability. About one in four stay in Pinckneyville for work; outside it, Nashville is the main destination (8%, 18 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Pinckneyville
What’s behind Pinckneyville’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Pinckneyville is better than 45% of U.S. towns, #531 of 768 in Illinois. Unemployment holds Pinckneyville’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 25% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Pinckneyville could be anywhere from D to A−.
The daily trip from Pinckneyville: about 18 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Pinckneyville workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,238 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.
Who leaves, who stays, who comes in
On a workday 1,096 residents head out to work, 331 work right here, and 1,458 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 (1.25 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 Pinckneyville’s working residents head each day
Where Pinckneyville clocks in
8% of workers
4% 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Pinckneyville
1,789 jobs are based in Pinckneyville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Pinckneyville, 2014 → 2024: 1,881 → 1,789. 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 Pinckneyville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Near or far: the trip to work from Pinckneyville
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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Most trips from Pinckneyville start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Pinckneyville is more walkable than 25% of U.S. towns, #697 of 768 in Illinois. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any 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 1,335 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). 5.5% of Pinckneyville households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Pinckneyville’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Pinckneyville ranks: 2,279th of 3,840 U.S. towns of 3,400 to 6,600
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 18 | South Barrington IL | 5,071 | $222K | 1.0% | 2.0% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 31 | Deer Park IL | 3,647 | $174K | 1.3% | 2.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,277 | Captain Cook HI | 3,419 | $109K | 4.4% | 8.2% | 3% | B− |
| 2,278 | Williston FL | 3,456 | $61K | 15.8% | 1.7% | 15% | C+ |
| 2,279 | Pinckneyville IL | 4,903 | $70K | 9.1% | 3.3% | 23% | C+ |
| 2,280 | Croton Township MI | 3,472 | $77K | 12.7% | 2.1% | <1% | C+ |
| 2,281 | Tyro NC | 3,833 | $58K | 15.7% | 2.4% | 3% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,840 | 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 Pinckneyville, 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 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 Pinckneyville: questions
What is the median household income in Pinckneyville?
$69,583 (±$15,958) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Pinckneyville?
9.1%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Pinckneyville?
18 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Pinckneyville work?
23% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Nashville (8%, 18 mi), Carbondale (4%, 26 mi), Du Quoin (4%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Pinckneyville walkable?
Pinckneyville is more walkable than 25% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 7.2 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Pinckneyville 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 Pinckneyville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Pinckneyville
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.