With 0.5 jobs for every working resident, most of Shipman Township works elsewhere
253 jobs are based in Shipman Township, and 539 of its residents work somewhere. Jobs and income earn Shipman Township B−; getting around on foot earns it C+. Household incomes here are higher than in 75% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How Shipman Township earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Shipman Township is better than 54% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Shipman Township’s grade up ($98,125, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 31% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (1.2%) is left out: Shipman 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, Shipman Township could be anywhere from C− to A−.
Shipman Township on a workday afternoon
On a workday 521 residents head out to work, 18 work right here, and 235 people come in from elsewhere.
About 990 people are in Shipman 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.
10% of working residents work in Alton
Where Shipman Township clocks in
10% of workers
4% 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.
What Shipman Township’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Shipman Township, 2013 → 2023: 264 → 253. 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 Shipman Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Shipman Township spends getting to work: about 29 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Shipman Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 599 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.
Half of Shipman Township commutes less than 24 miles
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.
Most trips from Shipman Township start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Shipman Township is more walkable than 37% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 10.8% across Illinois, on an EPA index of 4.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 655 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). 7.5% of Shipman Township households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Shipman Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Shipman Township next to U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700: 1,455th of 4,866 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% | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,453 | Washburn IL | 1,008 | $77K | 7.5% | 5.8% | 5% | B− |
| 1,454 | Schuylerville NY | 1,348 | $87K | 9.6% | 2.5% | 7% | B− |
| 1,455 | Shipman Township IL | 1,273 | $98K | 9.6% | 1.2% | 3% | B− |
| 1,456 | Shieldsville Township MN | 1,101 | $101K | 10.4% | 1.1% | 2% | B− |
| 1,457 | Orford NH | 1,229 | $93K | 5.8% | 4.8% | 3% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 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 Shipman Township, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
How Shipman Township compares with the towns next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Shipman Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shipman Township | – | B− | C+ | 29 min | $98,125 |
| Chesterfield Township | under 3% | — | — | 30 min | — |
| Hillyard Township | under 3% | — | — | 29 min | — |
| Brighton Township | under 3% | B+ | B− | 32 min | $91,667 |
| Fidelity Township | under 3% | — | — | 21 min | — |
| Ruyle Township | under 3% | — | — | 47 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Chesterfield Township, Hillyard Township, Fidelity Township and Ruyle Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Shipman 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 Shipman Township: questions
What is the median household income in Shipman Township?
$98,125 (±$40,357) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Shipman Township?
9.6%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Shipman Township?
29 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Shipman Township work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Alton (10%, 16 mi), East Alton (5%, 17 mi), Edwardsville (4%, 24 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Shipman Township walkable?
Shipman Township is more walkable than 37% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 4.7 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Shipman Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Shipman Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Shipman 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.