Photo: TheCatalyst31 · CC BY-SA 4.0Work and commuting in Shabbona Township
Working from home is the commute for 5% of workers, against 16% across Illinois. For jobs and income Shabbona Township is better than 56% of U.S. towns (B); for walkability it is more walkable than 65% of U.S. towns (B+). Only 8% work in Shabbona Township; the top destination outside it is DeKalb (9%, 13 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Shabbona Township in brief
Shabbona Township’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Shabbona Township’s grade. It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (7.3%) is left out: Shabbona Township’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Shabbona Township could be anywhere from C+ to B+.
What Shabbona Township’s employers do
342 jobs are based in Shabbona Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Shabbona Township, 2014 → 2024: 271 → 342. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Shabbona Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who commutes out of Shabbona Township, and who commutes in
On a workday 529 residents head out to work, 43 work right here, and 299 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Shabbona Township on a workday afternoon, 17% fewer than live here.
0.60 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Where Shabbona Township goes to work
Where Shabbona Township clocks in
9% of workers
7% of workers
6% 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.
The trip to work from Shabbona Township: about 29 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Shabbona Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 392 commuters (the 5% 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.
Shabbona Township’s commute, mile by mile
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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Shabbona Township is a driving town
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 10.8% across Illinois, on an EPA index of 6.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 413 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). 6.2% of Shabbona Township households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Shabbona Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Shabbona Township is 1,566th of 5,400 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,800 on jobs and income
| # | 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% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 28 | Tower Lakes IL | 1,201 | $154K | 2.0% | 2.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 31 | Third Lake IL | 1,103 | $150K | 2.0% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 36 | Lily Lake IL | 1,073 | $140K | 0.2% | 8.9% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,564 | Dayton IN | 1,368 | $78K | 12.1% | 2.2% | 1% | B |
| 1,565 | Wakeman OH | 1,019 | $72K | 7.9% | 3.1% | 3% | B |
| 1,566 | Shabbona Township IL | 1,331 | $81K | 8.4% | 7.3% | 8% | B |
| 1,567 | Rome Township PA | 1,027 | $91K | 4.4% | 7.0% | 1% | B |
| 1,568 | Lomira WI | 1,107 | $85K | 10.2% | 3.3% | 5% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Shabbona Township, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
Work in the towns next to Shabbona Township
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Shabbona Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shabbona Township | – | B | B+ | 29 min | $81,032 |
| Milan Township | under 2% | — | — | 27 min | — |
| Willow Creek Township | under 2% | — | — | 35 min | — |
| Paw Paw Township | under 2% | — | — | 58 min | — |
| Clinton Township | under 2% | A− | C | 36 min | $100,505 |
| Afton Township | under 2% | — | — | 36 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Milan Township, Willow Creek Township, Paw Paw Township and Afton Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Shabbona 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 2024, 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 Shabbona Township: questions
What is the median household income in Shabbona Township?
$81,032 (±$1,555) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Shabbona Township?
8.4%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Shabbona Township?
29 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Shabbona Township work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are DeKalb (9%, 13 mi), Shabbona (7%, 0 mi), Aurora (6%, 30 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Shabbona Township walkable?
Shabbona Township is more walkable than 65% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 6.5 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Shabbona Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Shabbona Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Shabbona Township
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.