Jobs, pay and the trip to work in Princeville
About one in seven work in Princeville itself; outside it, Peoria draws the most (32%, 15 miles). Jobs and income earn Princeville C+; getting around on foot earns it D. For 8% of workers, the job is at home; Illinois has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Princeville, in brief
Princeville and Peoria trade workers both ways
Peoria is the top workplace for Princeville residents (32%) and also where the most people who work in Princeville come from (10% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Commutes from Princeville are quick
The average trip to work takes 21 minutes, against 28 across Illinois. That’s about 54 hours a year less on the road than the typical Illinois worker. 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 725 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Income, poverty and work: Princeville’s grade explained
On income, poverty and job access, Princeville is better than 42% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Princeville’s grade up ($76,250, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate pulls it down (14.2%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on job access by car.
Unemployment (1.4%) is left out: Princeville’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Princeville could be anywhere from C− to A−.
Commuting out of Princeville: the destinations
Where Princeville clocks in
3% 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.
A commute of about 21 minutes in Princeville
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Princeville workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 757 commuters (the 8% 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 Princeville for work, and who comes in
On a workday 634 residents head out to work, 91 work right here, and 337 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,400 people are in Princeville on a workday afternoon, 17% fewer than live here.
0.59 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
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 Princeville’s employers do
428 jobs are based in Princeville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Princeville, 2013 → 2023: 398 → 428. 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 Princeville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Miles to work from Princeville
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 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Most of Princeville commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Princeville is more walkable than 12% of U.S. towns. 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 819 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). 5.9% of Princeville households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Princeville’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Princeville is 2,645th of 5,760 U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 24 | Tower Lakes IL | 1,201 | $154K | 2.0% | 2.8% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 34 | Bannockburn IL | 1,308 | $214K | 5.1% | 1.8% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 39 | Prestbury IL | 2,045 | $165K | 1.9% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,643 | Grover WI | 1,754 | $72K | 6.1% | 0.9% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,644 | Dauphin Island AL | 1,929 | $67K | 6.6% | 14.3% | 21% | C+ |
| 2,645 | Princeville IL | 1,713 | $76K | 14.2% | 1.4% | 13% | C+ |
| 2,646 | Shreve OH | 1,495 | $66K | 10.3% | 1.7% | 7% | C+ |
| 2,647 | Benona Township MI | 1,446 | $78K | 7.7% | 1.2% | 3% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,760 | 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 Princeville, 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 Princeville: questions
What is the median household income in Princeville?
$76,250 (±$16,189) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Princeville?
14.2%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Princeville?
21 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Princeville work?
13% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Peoria (32%, 15 mi), Chicago (3%, 124 mi), East Peoria (3%, 21 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Princeville walkable?
Princeville is more walkable than 12% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.8 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Princeville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Princeville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Princeville
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.