Most of Scott Township commutes out: there are 0.3 jobs for every working resident
Measured by household income, Scott Township is ahead of 83% of U.S. towns. There are 394 jobs in Scott Township for 1,427 working residents. For jobs and income Scott Township is better than 64% of U.S. towns (B); for walkability it is more walkable than 12% of U.S. towns (D).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Scott Township
Scott Township workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 34 minutes each way, against 28 across Illinois. Over a year that’s about 261 hours of commuting, 46 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Scott Township is a place people come home to
There are 394 jobs based in Scott Township, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Scott Township has about 2,300 people in it, 31% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
29% of Scott Township works in Rockford
414 working residents, 29%, have their main job in Rockford, 11 miles away. That’s 10 times as many as work in Scott Township itself. The commute map ↓
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.
Why Scott Township gets the Jobs & income grade it does
Household income holds Scott Township’s grade up ($109,500, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down (5.1%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Scott Township could be anywhere from B− to A.
About 34 minutes to work from Scott Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Scott Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,446 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.
Scott Township by day and by night
On a workday 1,388 residents head out to work, 39 work right here, and 355 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,300 people are in Scott Township on a workday afternoon, 31% 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.
29% of working residents work in Rockford
Where Scott Township clocks in
29% of workers
5% 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.
Jobs in Scott Township: what the 394 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Scott Township, 2013 → 2023: 325 → 394. 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 Scott Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Scott Township’s workers travel
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.
In Scott Township, the car does most of the work
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,582 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). 0.0% of Scott Township households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Scott Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Scott Township is 1,527th of 4,593 U.S. towns of 2,300 to 4,500 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 23 | Deer Park IL | 3,647 | $174K | 1.3% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,525 | Wadsworth IL | 3,488 | $143K | 8.5% | 13.3% | 3% | B |
| 1,526 | Lakemore OH | 2,920 | $60K | 7.2% | 3.3% | 2% | B |
| 1,527 | Scott Township IL | 3,350 | $110K | 8.2% | 5.1% | 3% | B |
| 1,528 | Jackson Township PA | 4,076 | $81K | 5.5% | 3.1% | 5% | B |
| 1,529 | Juniper Canyon OR | 2,666 | $85K | 5.7% | 0.0% | 1% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 4,593 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Scott Township, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
Scott Township and the towns next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Scott Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scott Township | – | B | D | 34 min | $109,500 |
| Monroe Township | under 2% | A | C− | 34 min | $93,056 |
| White Rock Township | under 2% | — | — | 32 min | — |
| Marion Township | under 2% | A− | C− | 25 min | $104,924 |
| Rockford Township | under 2% | — | — | 22 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. White Rock Township and Rockford Township: not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Scott 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 Scott Township: questions
What is the median household income in Scott Township?
$109,500 (±$14,223) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Scott Township?
8.2%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Scott Township?
34 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Scott Township work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Rockford (29%, 11 mi), Rochelle (6%, 13 mi), Chicago (5%, 76 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Scott Township walkable?
Scott Township is more walkable than 12% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.8 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Scott Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Scott Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Scott 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.