Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 2,049, settled in 1850.
Reading Township’s best subject grade is an A for cost of living; its weakest is a D for incomes. Reading Township has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
Where Reading Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Illinois), ordered by how far Reading Township is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 2,247 in 2000, 2,023 in 2020. The archive holds 1 old photo or paper going back to 1880 and a map from 1925 on.
Who provides power, water and the rest in Reading Township, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Sep 12, 2025.
Ordered by what stands out in Reading Township.
The share of residents in Reading Township who live below the poverty line: 17%. Most people who work leave Reading Township to do it: just 13% work in town. Its middle household income stands at $54,000, below both Illinois’ towns ($83,000) and U.S. towns ($80,000). Jobs locally fell by 114 from 2013 to 2023, to 1,202.
| Reading Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 17% | 8.4% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $54,000 | $83,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 13% | 8.3% | 8% |
| Average trip to work | 27 minutes | 26 minutes | 25 minutes |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Its public schools are run by Woodland CUSD 5. Public school enrollment in Reading Township: 458 students across 2 schools.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woodland Elementary/Jr High SchLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–8 | Grades PK–8 | 320 | C+ |
| Woodland High SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 138 | B+ |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within IL on state tests and graduation
CDC measures, 32 in all: Reading Township beats Illinois on 1 and trails on 12. In Reading Township, two in five adults have high blood pressure, above both the Illinois town median (35%) and the median of U.S. towns (35%). 16% of adults report frequent physical distress in the town.
| Reading Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 13% | 14% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 40% | 35% | 35% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 14% | 11% | 12% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 13% | 14% |
| What stands out | Reading Township | IL |
|---|---|---|
| More adults treating high blood pressure | 79.2% | 75.7% |
| More adults with COPD | 10% | 6.3% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Compared with 71% of U.S. communities, expected storm and flood damage in Reading Township is higher. Of the losses FEMA expects locally, 61% come from inland flooding and 18% from cold waves.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
The range runs from 16° on a January night to 85° on a July afternoon, with about 26 inches of snow a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
| Reading Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conserved land | 0.1% | 3.7% | 4.3% |
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.1 miles per square mile | 0.3 | 0.4 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
None within 15 miles of Reading Township; the nearest are
About 2 of every 100 Reading Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Illinois.
Township in Illinois, United States
Reading Township is located in Livingston County, Illinois. As of the 2020 census, its population was 2,023 and it contained 1,008 housing units.
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4 towns share a border with Reading Township.
| Town | IL rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading Township | — | — | A | — | C | C |
| Long Point Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Newtown Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Eagle Township | — | — | A | — | C− | C |
| Osage Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Reading Township and Eagle Township have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Reading Township and Eagle Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Long Point Township, Newtown Township and Osage Township aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Reading Township with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Not for the area. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades A.