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A town of 5,436, settled in 1851. Public schools that outperform most of Illinois.
St. Joseph Township grades B+ overall, 288th among Illinois's 767 graded towns, with clear strengths and some subjects that lag. Its schools rank ahead of 92% of Illinois towns and residents are healthier than 84% of U.S. towns on CDC estimates. On the other side, FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 83% of U.S. communities, with inland flooding at the top. St. Joseph Township’s median household income is $116,000, above both the Illinois town median ($83,000) and the median of U.S. towns ($80,000). The biggest park or preserve is Saint Joseph Community Park, at 40 acres. Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 69% of U.S. towns.
Where St. Joseph Township beats most towns.
Where St. Joseph Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Illinois), ordered by how far St. Joseph Township is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 328 in 1880, 3,810 in 2020. The archive holds 2 old photos and papers going back to 2006 and 3 maps from 1906 on.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around St. Joseph Township. Close and well known come first.
8 mi LandmarkAmerican Football House
9 mi Stadium & arenaGies Memorial Stadium
14 mi MuseumOctave Chanute Aerospace Museum
9 mi TheatreKrannert Center for the Performing Arts
32 mi GardenRobert Allerton Park
27 mi MuseumMonticello Railway MuseumAmerican Football House: BanjoZebra, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Gies Memorial Stadium: T.J. Blakeman, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum: Chris Light (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0 · Krannert Center for the Performing Arts: Aries Liang, Public domain · Robert Allerton Park: D. Finnigan, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Monticello Railway Museum: Daniel Schwen, CC BY-SA 4.0
Who provides power, water and the rest in St. Joseph 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.
Ordered by what stands out in St. Joseph Township.
St. Joseph Township has better schools than Ogden Township or any other neighbor and has less no health insurance than most of Illinois, but it carries more natural-hazard risk than most of Illinois (mostly inland flooding).
Its A is the best School Grade on its borders; Ogden Township (A−) is next.
Its public schools are run by St Joseph CCSD 169. Its three schools are below. The largest public high school is St Joseph-Ogden High School, with 457 students.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Joseph Elem SchoolLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–4 | Grades PK–4 | 423 | A |
| St Joseph-Ogden High SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 457 | A |
| St Joseph Middle SchoolTop results in townGrades 5–8 | Grades 5–8 | 325 | A |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within IL on state tests and graduation
Its widest gap with Illinois is no health insurance: 6.4% of those 18–64 have no health insurance, against 9.9% statewide. Against the 6,263 U.S. towns with household incomes like St. Joseph Township’s, it is healthier than 67%, a smaller edge than it has nationally: part of it comes with its incomes.
19% of St. Joseph Township adults binge drink. Joseph Township beats the Illinois average on 10 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 1. 32% of St. Joseph Township adults sleep under 7 hours.
| St. Joseph Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 18% | 16% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 32% | 35% | 36% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 23% | 25% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 32% | 37% | 35% |
| What stands out | St. Joseph Township | IL |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer uninsured adults | 6.4% | 9.9% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 10.8% | 15.9% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 8.8% | 7.6% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 95% of Illinois towns, with expected losses of about $421 per resident a year; that rating is what its D for hazard risk is built on.
The FEMA risk score in St. Joseph Township is 83 of 100.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
St. Joseph Township has 645 jobs for its 2,439 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out.
Most working residents leave St. 5.5% of residents live below the poverty line in St. Joseph Township. Joseph Township for work: only 8% work in town.
| St. Joseph Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 5.5% | 8.4% | 9.6% |
| Work from home | 14% | 11% | 11% |
| Average trip to work | 24 minutes | 26 minutes | 25 minutes |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Joseph Township has chilly winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 86°, January nights drop to 18° and about 21 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Adults 18 to 34 are 17% of residents (23% statewide); children under 18 are 27% of residents (22% statewide). St. Joseph Township has lost 2.9% of its people since 2020, down to 5,436 in the Census Bureau’s 2025 estimate. 36% of adults 25 and older have a bachelor’s degree or more, vs 38% across Illinois.
| St. Joseph Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 18 | 27% | 22% | 22% |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 36% | 29% | 29% |
| Aged 65 or older | 16% | 19% | 18% |
| Median age | 39.2 years | 40.7 years | 40.5 years |
52% women, 48% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±3.5 points. Across Illinois, 50.6% of residents are women.
| St. Joseph Township | IL | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 9.5% | 11.5% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 17.6% | 10.4% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 6.9% | 9.1% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 10.4% | 13.6% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 15.2% | 13.3% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 13.9% | 12.4% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 10.4% | 12.8% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 12.6% | 10% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 3.7% | 7% | 7% |
| No diploma | 1% | 9.5% | 10.4% |
| High school | 23.2% | 25.1% | 26% |
| Some college | 18.9% | 19.2% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 21.2% | 8.3% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 23.4% | 22.6% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 12.3% | 15.3% | 14.1% |
Census population estimates, 2025 · U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates
0.8 miles of trail in 3 parks and preserves.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Saint Joseph Community Park | 0.3 mi | 40 |
| 2. B.J. Hackler Park | — | 9 |
| 3. Kolb Park | — | 3 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
2 within 15 miles of the center of St. Joseph Township
About 2 of every 100 St. Joseph Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Illinois.
Village in Illinois, United States
The Village of St. Joseph or Saint Joseph was founded on April 28, 1881, and is located in St. Joseph Township, Champaign County, Illinois, United States. The population was 3,810 at the 2020 census, a decline from the figure of 3,967 in 2010.
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4 towns share a border with St. Joseph Township.
| Town | IL rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. Joseph Township | #288 | B+ | C+ | — | A | A− |
| Stanton Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Ogden Township | — | — | B− | — | A− | A− |
| Sidney Township | — | — | B− | — | B | B+ |
| Urbana Township | #493 | B− | B | — | C− | B+ |
Ogden Township and Sidney Township have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. St. Joseph Township, Ogden Township, Sidney Township and Urbana Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Stanton Township isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare St. Joseph Township with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
By most measures, yes. St. Joseph Township grades B+ overall, better than 74% of U.S. towns and #288 of 767 in Illinois. It grades A− for health and A for schools. Hazard risk is its weak spot, with a D.
Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C+.
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