Spring Garden TownshipIL
A town of 2,522, settled in 1838. Home to Rend Lake College.
Is Spring Garden Township a good place to live?
Spring Garden Township gives you more for your money than most places: a typical home costs about $105K, 1.7 years of the Mount Vernon area’s $63K median household income. It grades C overall, 622nd among Illinois's 767 graded towns. The low prices come with trade-offs. The median household income is $66K, and 16% of residents live below the poverty line. On walkability, just 128 of Illinois’ 1,284 towns do worse. Spring Garden Township is home to Rend Lake College.
What makes Spring Garden Township stand out
Where Spring Garden Township beats most towns.
Spring Garden Township has shrunk 24% since 2010
3,307 counted in 2010 and 2,586 in 2020; an estimated 2,522 in 2025.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts · Census Bureau estimate, July 1, 2025
How Spring Garden Township grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Illinois), ordered by how far Spring Garden Township is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Moving to Spring Garden Township: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Spring Garden Township, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Sep 12, 2025.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Spring Garden Township.
Spring Garden Township’s schools rank behind 69% of Illinois districts
Its public schools are run by Spring Garden CCSD 178. Its one school is below.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spring Garden Middle SchoolLargest public middle schoolGrades 5–8 | Grades 5–8 | 93 | B− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within IL on state tests and graduation
Health in Spring Garden Township trails 71% of U.S. towns
Spring Garden Township beats the Illinois average on 0 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 12. 18% of adults smoke cigarettes in Spring Garden Township, against 13% in Illinois’ towns and 14% across U.S. towns. 19% of Spring Garden Township adults binge drink.
| Spring Garden Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 13% | 14% |
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 18% | 16% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 41% | 37% | 35% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 39% | 35% | 36% |
| What stands out | Spring Garden Township | IL |
|---|---|---|
| More smokers | 18.1% | 12.1% |
| More adults with COPD | 8.9% | 6.3% |
| More older adults who have lost all their teeth | 13.7% | 10.3% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Spring Garden Township faces a high natural-hazard risk, led by earthquakes
Expected storm and flood damage is higher than in 68% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Four seasons and pleasant summers in Spring Garden Township
Spring Garden Township has chilly winters and warm summers. At 88°F, Spring Garden Township’s July high is where Illinois’ towns sit at 84°F and U.S. towns at 85°F.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
About one in three of Spring Garden Township’s working residents commute to Mount Vernon
The average commute for its 699 working residents takes 21 minutes, against 27.8 across Illinois.
Most working residents leave Spring Garden Township for work: only 6% work in town. Spring Garden Township’s average trip to work is 21 minutes. The top destinations are Mount Vernon (36%), Ina (5%) and Dodds Township (3%).
| Spring Garden Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 21 minutes | 26 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $66,000 | $83,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 5.9% | 8.4% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
2.8% of Spring Garden Township is conserved land
4.4 miles of trail in 2 parks and preserves. The biggest park or preserve is Wayne Fitzgerrell State Recreation Area, at 225 acres. The trail density in Spring Garden Township is 0.1 miles per square mile.
| Spring Garden Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.1 miles per square mile | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 2.8% | 3.7% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Rend Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area | 0.1 mi | 1,876 |
| 2. Wayne Fitzgerrell State Recreation Area | — | 225 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about Spring Garden Township
Colleges nearby
1 within 15 miles of the center of Spring Garden Township
About 3 of every 100 Spring Garden Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Illinois.
Rend Lake College calls Spring Garden Township home
About Spring Garden Township
Village in Illinois, United States
Bonnie is a village located in the southern part of Jefferson County, Illinois. Bonnie had a population of 374 in the 2020 census. It is part of the Mount Vernon Micropolitan Statistical Area.
From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · facts via Wikidata (CC0)
- Established
- 1905
- Area
- 1.2 sq mi
- Elevation
- 427 ft
- ZIP code
- 62816
Spring Garden Township’s neighbors
5 towns share a border with Spring Garden Township.
| Town | IL rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spring Garden Township | #622 | C | A | — | C | C |
| Ewing Township | — | — | B | — | B− | C |
| Dodds Township | #599 | C | A | — | C | C |
| Moores Prairie Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Elk Prairie Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Northern Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Ewing Township has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Spring Garden Township, Ewing Township and Dodds Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Moores Prairie Township, Elk Prairie Township and Northern Township aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Spring Garden Township with a neighbor →
Questions about Spring Garden Township
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Spring Garden Township, IL a good place to live?
Spring Garden Township grades C overall, better than 26% of U.S. towns and #622 of 767 in Illinois. It grades C for health and C for schools. Walkability is its weak spot, with a D.
Is Spring Garden Township, IL expensive?
Not for the area. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades A.