Photo: Ben Jacobson (Kranar Drogin) · CC BY 2.5Households in Stillman Valley have higher incomes than those in 65% of U.S. towns
Only 6% stay in Stillman Valley for work; outside it, Rockford is the main destination (28%, 12 miles). 8.6% of residents live below the poverty line, against 11.8% across Illinois. The two grades for Stillman Valley are B+ for jobs and income and C+ for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Stillman Valley
28% of Stillman Valley works in Rockford
126 working residents, 28%, have their main job in Rockford, 12 miles away. That’s 5 times as many as work in Stillman Valley itself. The commute map ↓
Commutes from Stillman Valley are quick
The average trip to work takes 23 minutes, against 28 across Illinois. That’s about 38 hours a year less on the road than the typical Illinois worker. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 446 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Why Stillman Valley gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty and job access, Stillman Valley is better than 66% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Stillman Valley’s grade. It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
Unemployment (1.2%) is left out: Stillman Valley’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, Stillman Valley could be anywhere from B− to A.
Where Stillman Valley’s working residents head each day
Where Stillman Valley clocks in
28% of workers
4% 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.
About 23 minutes to work from Stillman Valley
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Stillman Valley workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 500 commuters (the 8% 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.
A workday in Stillman Valley: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 420 residents head out to work, 26 work right here, and 489 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.15 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Stillman Valley
515 jobs are based in Stillman Valley.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Stillman Valley, 2014 → 2024: 455 → 515. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Stillman Valley’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Stillman Valley goes to work
About 21% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Most of Stillman Valley commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Stillman Valley is more walkable than 36% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 10.8% across Illinois, on an EPA index of 5.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 546 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). 0.0% of Stillman Valley households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Stillman Valley’s commuters take a bus or train.
Stillman Valley next to U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400: 600th of 3,133 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% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 19 | Tower Lakes IL | 1,201 | $154K | 2.0% | 2.8% | 1% | A+ |
| 20 | Third Lake IL | 1,103 | $150K | 2.0% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 24 | Lily Lake IL | 1,073 | $140K | 0.2% | 8.9% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 598 | Richland Township IN | 1,074 | $87K | 3.1% | 2.2% | 2% | B+ |
| 599 | Grabill IN | 1,168 | $67K | 5.6% | 2.5% | 4% | B+ |
| 600 | Stillman Valley IL | 1,058 | $88K | 8.6% | 1.2% | 6% | B+ |
| 601 | Pelham MA | 1,308 | $114K | 10.3% | 6.6% | 1% | B+ |
| 602 | Richmond NH | 1,234 | $89K | 2.7% | 13.4% | 2% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Stillman Valley, 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 2024, 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 Stillman Valley: questions
What is the median household income in Stillman Valley?
$87,833 (±$4,259) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Stillman Valley?
8.6%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Stillman Valley?
23 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Stillman Valley work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Rockford (28%, 12 mi), Rochelle (4%, 14 mi), Byron (4%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Stillman Valley walkable?
Stillman Valley is more walkable than 36% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 5.7 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Stillman Valley without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Stillman Valley, from the people who make the trip.
More of Stillman Valley
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.