Photo: Chris Light · CC BY-SA 3.0Jobs, income and commuting in St. Anne, IL
About one in ten stay in St. Anne for work; outside it, Kankakee is the main destination (13%, 9 miles). The two grades for St. Anne are B for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. 6% of workers work from home; Illinois has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in St. Anne, in a few figures
How St. Anne earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, St. Anne is better than 63% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds St. Anne’s grade up (5.3%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 37% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (7.3%) is left out: St. Anne’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, St. Anne could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
How many miles St. Anne commutes
About 30% 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.
St. Anne quiets down on a workday
On a workday 475 residents head out to work, 52 work right here, and 255 people come in from elsewhere.
About 900 people are in St. Anne on a workday afternoon, 20% fewer than live here.
0.58 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 2023, primary jobs.
Out of St. Anne to work: where people go
Where St. Anne clocks in
13% of workers
9% of workers
8% 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 the 307 jobs in St. Anne are
307 jobs are based in St. Anne.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in St. Anne, 2013 → 2023: 285 → 307. 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 St. Anne’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 27 minutes from St. Anne
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of St. Anne workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 472 commuters (the 6% 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.
Getting around St. Anne: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, St. Anne is more walkable than 67% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 10.8% across Illinois, on an EPA index of 6.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 500 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). 6.3% of St. Anne households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of St. Anne’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 3,771 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500, St. Anne comes 806th 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 21 | Tower Lakes IL | 1,201 | $154K | 2.0% | 2.8% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 23 | Third Lake IL | 1,103 | $150K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 28 | Lily Lake IL | 1,073 | $140K | 0.2% | 8.9% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 804 | Deerwood Township MN | 1,392 | $95K | 3.1% | 2.4% | 2% | B |
| 805 | Leadville North CO | 1,417 | $98K | 1.3% | 2.9% | 2% | B |
| 806 | St. Anne IL | 1,122 | $83K | 5.3% | 7.3% | 10% | B |
| 807 | Bloomfield Township PA | 1,040 | $91K | 6.1% | 0.4% | 1% | B |
| 808 | Plymouth WI | 1,175 | $86K | 7.8% | 2.1% | <1% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | 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 St. Anne, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
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 St. Anne: questions
What is the median household income in St. Anne?
$83,077 (±$17,303) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in St. Anne?
5.3%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from St. Anne?
27 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in St. Anne work?
10% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Kankakee (13%, 9 mi), Chicago (9%, 56 mi), Bradley (8%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is St. Anne walkable?
St. Anne is more walkable than 67% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 6.8 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around St. Anne 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 St. Anne, from the people who make the trip.
More of St. Anne
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.