With 0.2 jobs for every working resident, most of Pleasant View Township works elsewhere
There are 94 jobs in Pleasant View Township; 563 of its residents have a job. Jobs and income earn Pleasant View Township B−; getting around on foot earns it B−. Home is the office for 6% of workers; Illinois has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Pleasant View Township: the gist
42% of Pleasant View Township works in Decatur
237 working residents, 42%, have their main job in Decatur, 14 miles away. That’s 11 times as many as work in Pleasant View Township itself. The commute map ↓
Pleasant View Township is a place people come home to
There are 94 jobs based in Pleasant View Township, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Pleasant View Township has about 890 people in it, 35% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
A big share show a job far from home
30% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
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; with 563 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Pleasant View Township’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty and job access, Pleasant View Township is better than 49% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Pleasant View Township’s grade up (7.2%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 36% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (4.9%) is left out: Pleasant View 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, Pleasant View Township could be anywhere from C to B+.
42% of working residents work in Decatur
Where Pleasant View Township clocks in
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.
Pleasant View Township by day and by night
On a workday 539 residents head out to work, 24 work right here, and 70 people come in from elsewhere.
About 890 people are in Pleasant View Township on a workday afternoon, 35% 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.
Miles to work from Pleasant View Township
About 30% 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.
The kinds of work in Pleasant View Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Pleasant View Township, 2013 → 2023: 133 → 94. 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 Pleasant View Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 29 minutes each way for Pleasant View Township’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Pleasant View Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 516 commuters (the 6% 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.
Most trips from Pleasant View Township start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Pleasant View Township is more walkable than 46% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 10.8% across Illinois, on an EPA index of 4.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 547 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). 1.4% of Pleasant View Township households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Pleasant View Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 5,400 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,800, Pleasant View Township comes 1,945th on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
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| 28 | Tower Lakes IL | 1,201 | $154K | 2.0% | 2.8% | <1% | A+ |
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| 31 | Third Lake IL | 1,103 | $150K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
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| 36 | Lily Lake IL | 1,073 | $140K | 0.2% | 8.9% | 0% | A+ |
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| 1,943 | North Bend NE | 1,263 | $86K | 8.6% | 0.2% | 16% | B− |
| 1,944 | Arlington OH | 1,457 | $77K | 9.7% | 2.8% | 3% | B− |
| 1,945 | Pleasant View Township IL | 1,354 | $72K | 7.2% | 4.9% | 4% | B− |
| 1,946 | Woodbury Township PA | 1,191 | $64K | 4.4% | 2.4% | 2% | B− |
| 1,947 | Hanover Township PA | 1,696 | $56K | 11.4% | 5.2% | 6% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | 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 Pleasant View Township, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
Next door to Pleasant View Township
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Pleasant View Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pleasant View Township | – | B− | B− | 29 min | $71,908 |
| Blue Mound Township | under 2% | — | — | 34 min | — |
| Prairieton Township | under 2% | — | — | 24 min | — |
| South Macon Township | under 2% | B | C+ | 28 min | $77,734 |
Same-state neighbors only. Blue Mound Township and Prairieton Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Pleasant View 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 Pleasant View Township: questions
What is the median household income in Pleasant View Township?
$71,908 (±$11,623) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Pleasant View Township?
7.2%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Pleasant View Township?
29 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Pleasant View Township work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Decatur (42%, 14 mi), Springfield (5%, 31 mi), Macon (3%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Pleasant View Township walkable?
Pleasant View Township is more walkable than 46% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 4.7 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Pleasant View Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Pleasant View Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Pleasant View 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.