Steeleville draws 1,737 commuters a day, with 2.4 jobs for every working resident
At home: 2% of workers have no commute at all (Illinois 16%). Steeleville has 1,918 jobs for 814 working residents. The two grades for Steeleville are D for jobs and income and C+ for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Steeleville stands out on work
Steeleville is where the jobs are
Steeleville has 1,918 jobs, 2.4 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 3,000 people are in town, 59% more than the 1,900 who live here. Day and night ↓
Steeleville makes and builds things
76% of the jobs based in Steeleville are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Steeleville residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 26%. The jobs ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Steeleville than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Steeleville fell from 2,900 in 2013 to 1,918 in 2023, −34%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
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 814 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Income, poverty and work: Steeleville’s grade explained
On income, poverty and job access, Steeleville is better than 11% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Steeleville’s grade up ($60,313, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate pulls it down (22.5%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (3.7%) is left out: Steeleville’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, Steeleville could be anywhere from D− to C.
How a workday changes Steeleville
On a workday 633 residents head out to work and 181 work right here.
About 3,000 people are in Steeleville on a workday afternoon, 59% more 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.
Factories, building and farms: 76% of the jobs in Steeleville
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Steeleville, 2013 → 2023: 2,900 → 1,918. 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 Steeleville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where Steeleville’s workers come from
Where Steeleville clocks in
13% 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.
Time on the road from Steeleville: about 20 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Steeleville workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 795 commuters (the 2% 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.
Steeleville’s commute, mile by mile
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.
For most of Steeleville, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Steeleville is more walkable than 43% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Steeleville near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 810 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). 2.8% of Steeleville households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Steeleville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 5,656 U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,500, Steeleville comes 4,685th on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 33 | Bannockburn IL | 1,308 | $214K | 5.1% | 1.8% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 38 | Prestbury IL | 2,045 | $165K | 1.9% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,683 | Elizabeth Township OH | 2,415 | $61K | 18.5% | 4.5% | 5% | D |
| 4,684 | Shippen Township PA | 1,805 | $62K | 14.5% | 7.6% | 14% | D |
| 4,685 | Steeleville IL | 1,883 | $60K | 22.5% | 3.7% | 22% | D |
| 4,686 | Dry Ridge KY | 2,249 | $56K | 21.9% | 6.9% | 8% | D |
| 4,687 | Bowman ND | 1,357 | $63K | 15.5% | 2.7% | 42% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,656 | 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 Steeleville, 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 Steeleville: questions
What is the median household income in Steeleville?
$60,313 (±$16,997) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Steeleville?
22.5%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Steeleville?
20 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Steeleville work?
22% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Sparta (13%, 10 mi), Chester (7%, 11 mi), Bradley Township (3%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Steeleville walkable?
Steeleville is more walkable than 43% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 7.0 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Steeleville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Steeleville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Steeleville
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.