Most of Sand Prairie Township commutes out: there are 0.3 jobs for every working resident
Jobs and income earn Sand Prairie Township C+; getting around on foot earns it D−. Employers in Sand Prairie Township report 129 jobs for 500 working residents. Only 1% stay in Sand Prairie Township for work; outside it, Peoria is the main destination (16%, 22 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Sand Prairie Township and work: the main findings
Where Sand Prairie Township’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty and job access, Sand Prairie Township is better than 40% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Sand Prairie Township’s grade.
Unemployment (0.3%) is left out: Sand Prairie 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, Sand Prairie Township could be anywhere from D to A−.
The workday shuffle in and out of Sand Prairie Township
On a workday 495 residents head out to work, 5 work right here, and 124 people come in from elsewhere.
About 880 people are in Sand Prairie Township on a workday afternoon, 30% 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.
Where Sand Prairie Township’s working residents head each day
Where Sand Prairie Township clocks in
Lines 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.
Jobs in Sand Prairie Township: what the 129 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Sand Prairie Township, 2013 → 2023: 76 → 129. 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 Sand Prairie Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 29 minutes from Sand Prairie Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Sand Prairie Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 494 commuters (the 15% 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.
How far Sand Prairie Township goes to work
About 19% 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 Sand Prairie Township walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Sand Prairie Township is near the bottom of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Sand Prairie Township near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 579 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). 0.6% of Sand Prairie Township households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Sand Prairie Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Sand Prairie Township ranks: 2,206th of 4,866 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700
| # | 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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| 25 | Tower Lakes IL | 1,201 | $154K | 2.0% | 2.8% | <1% | A+ |
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| 28 | Third Lake IL | 1,103 | $150K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 33 | Lily Lake IL | 1,073 | $140K | 0.2% | 8.9% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,204 | Jones Valley CA | 1,122 | $82K | 7.8% | 9.9% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,205 | Lyndon KS | 1,032 | $67K | 8.8% | 0.0% | 11% | C+ |
| 2,206 | Sand Prairie Township IL | 1,248 | $68K | 11.2% | 0.3% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,207 | Big Island Township OH | 1,179 | $44K | 0.0% | 0.0% | 2% | C+ |
| 2,208 | Liberty Township OH | 1,078 | $61K | 10.3% | 1.1% | 7% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | 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 Sand Prairie Township, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
Sand Prairie Township and its neighbors
The biggest share goes to Cincinnati Township (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Sand Prairie Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sand Prairie Township | – | C+ | D− | 29 min | $67,500 |
| Manito Township | under 2% | B | B− | 27 min | $68,942 |
| Dillon Township | under 2% | — | — | 23 min | — |
| Malone Township | under 2% | — | — | — | — |
| Cincinnati Township | 3% | B | C | 24 min | $83,712 |
Same-state neighbors only. Dillon Township: not graded. Malone Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Sand Prairie 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 Sand Prairie Township: questions
What is the median household income in Sand Prairie Township?
$67,500 (±$20,294) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Sand Prairie Township?
11.2%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Sand Prairie Township?
29 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 15% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Sand Prairie Township work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Peoria (16%, 22 mi), Pekin (13%, 9 mi), Morton (8%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Sand Prairie Township walkable?
Sand Prairie Township is near the bottom of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 3.0 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Sand Prairie Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Sand Prairie Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Sand Prairie 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.