Photo: formulanone from Huntsville, United States · CC BY-SA 2.0Preemption Township has 0.0 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
There are 33 jobs in Preemption Township, and 721 of its residents work somewhere. Preemption Township grades B+ for jobs and income and D for walkability. Working from home is the commute for 5% of workers, where Illinois as a whole has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Preemption Township apart on work
Preemption Township is a place people come home to
There are 33 jobs based in Preemption Township, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Preemption Township has about 950 people in it, 42% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Preemption Township workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 35 minutes each way, against 28 across Illinois. Over a year that’s about 268 hours of commuting, 54 more than the state’s typical worker. Every town next door averages less (18 to 28 minutes). Time on the road ↓
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 721 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Preemption Township’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty and job access, Preemption Township is better than 69% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Preemption Township’s grade up (5.6%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 47% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (0.7%) is left out: Preemption 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, Preemption Township could be anywhere from B− to A−.
A workday in Preemption Township: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 716 residents head out to work, 5 work right here, and 28 people come in from elsewhere.
About 950 people are in Preemption Township on a workday afternoon, 42% 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.
The daily trip from Preemption Township: about 35 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Preemption Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 866 commuters (the 5% 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.
12% of working residents work in Rock Island
Where Preemption Township clocks in
12% of workers
10% of workers
10% 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.
In Preemption Township, 52% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Preemption Township, 2013 → 2023: 40 → 33. 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 Preemption Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Preemption Township’s commute, mile by mile
About 23% 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.
Most of Preemption Township commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Preemption Township is more walkable than 12% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 10.8% across Illinois, on an EPA index of 3.6.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 915 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). 3.5% of Preemption Township households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Preemption Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 6,161 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,200, Preemption Township comes 1,232nd 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 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
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| 27 | Tower Lakes IL | 1,201 | $154K | 2.0% | 2.8% | <1% | A+ |
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| 30 | Third Lake IL | 1,103 | $150K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
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| 40 | Bannockburn IL | 1,308 | $214K | 5.1% | 1.8% | 5% | A+ |
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| 1,230 | West Windsor VT | 1,355 | $109K | 3.7% | 3.4% | 5% | B+ |
| 1,231 | Woodville OH | 1,976 | $83K | 3.1% | 5.5% | 2% | B+ |
| 1,232 | Preemption Township IL | 1,637 | $86K | 5.6% | 0.7% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,233 | Conway MA | 1,750 | $97K | 4.4% | 2.4% | 5% | B+ |
| 1,234 | Jackson Township OH | 1,562 | $93K | 6.1% | 0.3% | 2% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6,161 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Preemption Township, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
Work in the towns next to Preemption Township
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Preemption Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Preemption Township | – | B+ | D | 35 min | $85,673 |
| Perryton Township | under 2% | — | — | — | — |
| Bowling Township | under 2% | B | D | 22 min | $101,350 |
| Greene Township | under 2% | B | B | 28 min | $78,056 |
| Richland Grove Township | under 2% | B+ | D | 26 min | $106,630 |
| Rural Township | under 2% | — | — | 18 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Perryton Township and Rural Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Preemption 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 Preemption Township: questions
What is the median household income in Preemption Township?
$85,673 (±$10,080) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Preemption Township?
5.6%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Preemption Township?
35 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Preemption Township work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Rock Island (12%, 13 mi), Davenport (10%, 19 mi), Moline (10%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Preemption Township walkable?
Preemption Township is more walkable than 12% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 3.6 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Preemption Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Preemption Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Preemption 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.