Households in Ridott Township earn more than those in 60% of U.S. towns
28% of workers have no commute at all (Illinois 16%). Poverty touches 8.6% of residents (Illinois 11.8%). Ridott Township grades B for jobs and income and C+ for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Ridott Township
Ridott Township makes and builds things
80% of the jobs based in Ridott Township are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Ridott Township residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 25%. The jobs ↓
Ridott Township and Freeport trade workers both ways
Freeport is the top workplace for Ridott Township residents (26%) and also where the most people who work in Ridott Township come from (22% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Home offices are common in Ridott Township
28% of Ridott Township workers work from home, against 16% across Illinois. 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 572 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The figures behind Ridott Township’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Ridott Township is better than 58% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Ridott Township’s grade. It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (2.4%) is left out: Ridott Township’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, Ridott Township could be anywhere from C to A−.
Goods, not services: 80% of the jobs in Ridott Township
648 jobs are based in Ridott Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ridott Township, 2013 → 2023: 855 → 648. 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 Ridott Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
26% of working residents work in Freeport
Where Ridott Township clocks in
26% of workers
13% of workers
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.
About 22 minutes each way, quicker than most of Illinois
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ridott Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 495 commuters (the 28% 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 works in Ridott Township, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 548 residents head out to work, 24 work right here, and 624 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 (1.13 per resident).
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 Ridott Township
About 18% 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.
Few in Ridott Township walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Ridott Township is more walkable than 37% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.8% 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 683 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). 2.1% of Ridott Township households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Ridott Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ridott Township places 1,486th of 5,400 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 900 to 1,800
| # | 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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| 1,484 | Arnolds Park IA | 1,198 | $87K | 6.0% | 0.5% | 7% | B |
| 1,485 | Waterville NY | 1,491 | $82K | 8.1% | 0.7% | 11% | B |
| 1,486 | Ridott Township IL | 1,307 | $83K | 8.6% | 2.4% | 4% | B |
| 1,487 | La Valle WI | 1,443 | $86K | 4.7% | 0.7% | 2% | B |
| 1,488 | Hale WI | 1,081 | $92K | 7.0% | 3.8% | 1% | 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 Ridott Township, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
How Ridott Township compares with the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Silver Creek Township (2%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Ridott Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ridott Township | – | B | C+ | 22 min | $83,214 |
| Pecatonica Township | under 2% | B | C | 28 min | $81,012 |
| Rock Run Township | under 2% | B+ | C | 30 min | $90,083 |
| Maryland Township | under 2% | — | — | 31 min | — |
| Silver Creek Township | 2% | — | — | 17 min | — |
| Leaf River Township | under 2% | B+ | C | 30 min | $85,833 |
Same-state neighbors only. Maryland Township and Silver Creek Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Ridott 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 Ridott Township: questions
What is the median household income in Ridott Township?
$83,214 (±$24,463) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Ridott Township?
8.6%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ridott Township?
22 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 28% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Ridott Township work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Freeport (26%, 10 mi), Rockford (13%, 19 mi), Chicago (3%, 95 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Ridott Township walkable?
Ridott Township is more walkable than 37% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 3.6 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Ridott Township without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Ridott Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ridott 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.