Photo: Dual Freq · CC BY 2.5Sangamon Township has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
Employers in Sangamon Township report 463 jobs; 1,031 of its residents have a job. For jobs and income Sangamon Township is better than 89% of U.S. towns (A); for walkability it is more walkable than 29% of U.S. towns (C). Household incomes here are higher than in 88% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The figures behind Sangamon Township’s Jobs & income grade
The poverty rate holds Sangamon Township’s grade up (2.7%, 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 and unemployment.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Sangamon Township could be anywhere from B+ to A+.
Sangamon Township on a workday afternoon
On a workday 987 residents head out to work, 44 work right here, and 419 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,000 people are in Sangamon Township on a workday afternoon, 22% 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.
22% of working residents work in Champaign
Where Sangamon Township clocks in
22% of workers
13% of workers
8% 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.
Services make up most of the work in Sangamon Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Sangamon Township, 2013 → 2023: 179 → 463. 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 Sangamon Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 24 minutes in Sangamon Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Sangamon Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,053 commuters (the 9% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Sangamon Township
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.
Getting around Sangamon Township: mostly by car
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 10.8% across Illinois, on an EPA index of 4.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,161 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). 4.6% of Sangamon Township households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Sangamon Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
382nd of 4,868: where Sangamon Township ranks among U.S. towns of 1,800 to 3,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 30 | Prestbury IL | 2,045 | $165K | 1.9% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 56 | Wayne IL | 2,278 | $162K | 2.1% | 2.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 380 | Lake Orion MI | 2,900 | $101K | 9.2% | 0.7% | 8% | A |
| 381 | Abernathy TX | 2,826 | $88K | 3.0% | 1.0% | 12% | A |
| 382 | Sangamon Township IL | 2,533 | $121K | 2.7% | 2.3% | 4% | A |
| 383 | Gibbs Township ND | 2,856 | $156K | 1.4% | 2.9% | 1% | A |
| 384 | Franklin Township OH | 2,204 | $115K | 7.3% | 0.9% | <1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 4,868 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Sangamon Township, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
Sangamon Township and its neighbors
The biggest share goes to Goose Creek Township (2%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Sangamon Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sangamon Township | – | A | C | 24 min | $120,771 |
| Scott Township | under 2% | — | — | 21 min | — |
| Blue Ridge Township | under 2% | B+ | B+ | 25 min | $86,705 |
| Monticello Township | under 2% | — | — | 23 min | — |
| Goose Creek Township | 2% | — | — | 23 min | — |
| Mahomet Township | under 2% | A | C | 20 min | $115,615 |
Same-state neighbors only. Scott Township and Monticello Township: not graded. Goose Creek Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Sangamon 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 Sangamon Township: questions
What is the median household income in Sangamon Township?
$120,771 (±$14,810) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Sangamon Township?
2.7%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Sangamon Township?
24 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Sangamon Township work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Champaign (22%, 13 mi), Monticello (13%, 7 mi), Urbana (8%, 17 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Sangamon Township walkable?
Sangamon Township is more walkable than 29% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 4.8 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Sangamon Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Sangamon Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Sangamon 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.