Photo: Daniel Schwen · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.3 jobs for every working resident, most of Sidney Township works elsewhere
Measured by household income, Sidney Township is ahead of 82% of U.S. towns. Employers in Sidney Township report 185 jobs, and 661 of its residents work somewhere. The two grades for Sidney Township are A− for jobs and income and B− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Sidney Township, in a few figures
Sidney Township is a place people come home to
There are 185 jobs based in Sidney Township, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Sidney Township has about 1,200 people in it, 29% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
28% of Sidney Township works in Champaign
182 working residents, 28%, have their main job in Champaign, 13 miles away. That’s 14 times as many as work in Sidney 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; with 661 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Sidney Township
On income, poverty and job access, Sidney Township is better than 78% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Sidney Township’s grade up ($107,222, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 45% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (5.0%) is left out: Sidney 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, Sidney Township could be anywhere from B to A.
Sidney Township by day and by night
On a workday 650 residents head out to work, 11 work right here, and 174 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Sidney Township on a workday afternoon, 29% 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.
28% of working residents work in Champaign
Where Sidney Township clocks in
28% of workers
18% of workers
3% 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 Sidney Township’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Sidney Township, 2013 → 2023: 165 → 185. 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 Sidney Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 24 minutes in Sidney Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Sidney Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 606 commuters (the 10% 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 many miles Sidney Township commutes
About 22% 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.
The commute in Sidney Township is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Sidney Township is more walkable than 46% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 10.8% across Illinois, on an EPA index of 5.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 671 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). 0.4% of Sidney Township households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Sidney Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Sidney Township is 706th of 5,381 U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,200
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
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| 24 | Tower Lakes IL | 1,201 | $154K | 2.0% | 2.8% | <1% | A+ |
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| 34 | Bannockburn IL | 1,308 | $214K | 5.1% | 1.8% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 38 | Prestbury IL | 2,045 | $165K | 1.9% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
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| 704 | Blowing Rock NC | 1,324 | $121K | 2.4% | 0.4% | 15% | A− |
| 705 | Hampton CT | 1,768 | $109K | 5.7% | 6.5% | 6% | A− |
| 706 | Sidney Township IL | 1,654 | $107K | 5.3% | 5.0% | 2% | A− |
| 707 | Lanesburgh Township MN | 2,052 | $122K | 5.8% | 3.4% | <1% | A− |
| 708 | Monroe Township OH | 1,801 | $94K | 2.8% | 0.0% | 0% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,381 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Sidney Township, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
Work in the towns next to Sidney Township
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Sidney Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sidney Township | – | A− | B− | 24 min | $107,222 |
| St. Joseph Township | under 2% | B+ | C | 24 min | $116,250 |
| Philo Township | under 2% | B+ | B− | 20 min | $113,201 |
| Raymond Township | under 2% | — | — | 27 min | — |
| South Homer Township | under 2% | B− | B+ | 25 min | $84,063 |
Same-state neighbors only. Raymond Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Sidney 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 Sidney Township: questions
What is the median household income in Sidney Township?
$107,222 (±$21,978) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Sidney Township?
5.3%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Sidney Township?
24 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Sidney Township work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Champaign (28%, 13 mi), Urbana (18%, 10 mi), Chicago (3%, 128 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Sidney Township walkable?
Sidney Township is more walkable than 46% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 5.5 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Sidney 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 Sidney Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Sidney 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.