Sugar Creek TownshipIL
A town of 6,723, settled in 1873. Public schools that outperform most of Illinois.
Why does Sugar Creek Township grade so well?
Sugar Creek Township is one of the best-graded places in America: an A, 81st among Illinois's 767 graded towns. The median household earns $103K and its schools rank ahead of 78% of Illinois towns. The exception is hazard risk: FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 73% of U.S. communities, with inland flooding at the top. The biggest park or preserve is Aviston Community Park, at 27 acres. Sugar Creek Township’s July high is 88°F, above both Illinois’ towns (84°F) and U.S. towns (85°F). A typical home costs about $236K, 2.9 years of the St. Louis metro’s $80K median household income.
What makes Sugar Creek Township stand out
Where Sugar Creek Township beats most towns.
86% of working residents leave Sugar Creek Township for work
Where Sugar Creek Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Sugar Creek Township grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Illinois), ordered by how far Sugar Creek Township is from typical.
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Moving to Sugar Creek Township: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Sugar Creek 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 Sugar Creek Township.
Sugar Creek Township pairs an A− for schools with modest home prices and has less no health insurance than most of Illinois.
Sugar Creek Township earns an A− for schools
Its A− for schools comes with a B+ for cost of living: the typical home is worth about $236K.
Its public schools are run by Wesclin CUSD 3. Three of its 4 schools are below, each with why it’s listed. The largest public high school is Wesclin Sr High School, with 343 students.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wesclin Middle SchoolLargest public middle schoolGrades 4–8 | Grades 4–8 | 492 | B |
| Wesclin Sr High SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 343 | B+ |
| Aviston Elem SchoolTop results in townGrades PK–8 | Grades PK–8 | 462 | A+ |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within IL on state tests and graduation
Most of Sugar Creek Township’s workers commute out: the town has 0.5 jobs for each of them
Most working residents leave Sugar Creek Township for work: only 14% work in town. Since 2013, Sugar Creek Township has lost 110 jobs, to 1,533 in 2023. 6.5% of residents live below the poverty line in Sugar Creek Township.
| Sugar Creek Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $103,000 | $83,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 14% | 8.3% | 8% |
| Below the poverty line | 6.5% | 8.4% | 9.6% |
| Work from home | 13% | 11% | 11% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Residents of Sugar Creek Township are healthier than 72% of U.S. towns
Its widest gap with Illinois is no health insurance: 6.1% of those 18–64 have no health insurance, against 9.9% statewide. Against the 8,178 U.S. towns with household incomes like Sugar Creek Township’s, it is healthier than 57%, a smaller edge than it has nationally: part of it comes with its incomes.
Sugar Creek Township beats the Illinois average on 8 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 1. 20% of Sugar Creek Township adults binge drink.
| Sugar Creek Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 18% | 16% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 23% | 25% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 39% | 37% | 35% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 18% | 19% |
| What stands out | Sugar Creek Township | IL |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer uninsured adults | 6.1% | 9.9% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 10.1% | 15.9% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 9.3% | 7.6% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Inland flooding leads a high hazard risk in Sugar Creek Township
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
In Sugar Creek Township, expect four seasons and hot summers
Sugar Creek Township has chilly winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 88°, January nights drop to 23° and about 10 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Fewer middle-aged adults than Illinois overall
Adults 35 to 64 are 34% of residents (39% statewide). Sugar Creek Township’s median age is 37.3 years. 33% of adults 25 and older have a bachelor’s degree or more, vs 38% across Illinois.
| Sugar Creek Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 18 | 26% | 22% | 22% |
| Median age | 37.3 years | 40.7 years | 40.5 years |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 33% | 29% | 29% |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 92 men for every 100 women (the survey’s margin: ±2.2 points). Across Illinois, 50.6% of residents are women.
| Sugar Creek Township | IL | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 14.6% | 11.5% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 11% | 10.4% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 6.6% | 9.1% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 15.3% | 13.6% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 13.3% | 13.3% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 10.6% | 12.4% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 10.1% | 12.8% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 9.9% | 10% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 8.7% | 7% | 7% |
| No diploma | 4.6% | 9.5% | 10.4% |
| High school | 23.6% | 25.1% | 26% |
| Some college | 20% | 19.2% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 18.6% | 8.3% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 20.6% | 22.6% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 12.7% | 15.3% | 14.1% |
U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates
Sugar Creek Township has set aside 0.3% of its land for conservation
1.3 miles of trail in 5 parks and preserves.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Trenton Nature Park | 0.6 mi | 7 |
| 2. Trenton Community Park | 0.5 mi | 18 |
| 3. Aviston Community Park | 0.3 mi | 27 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about Sugar Creek Township
Colleges nearby
1 within 15 miles of the center of Sugar Creek Township
About 3 of every 100 Sugar Creek Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Illinois.
About Sugar Creek Township
Township in Illinois, United States
Sugar Creek Township is one of fifteen townships in Clinton County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 6,643 and it contained 2,720 housing units. The township's name changed from Trenton Township on June 1, 1874.
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- Established
- 1873
- Area
- 37 sq mi
- Elevation
- 482 ft
Sugar Creek Township’s neighbors
4 towns share a border with Sugar Creek Township.
It grades higher overall than all 3 graded towns on its borders; Helvetia Township (A) comes closest.
| Town | IL rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sugar Creek Township | #81 | A | B+ | — | A− | B+ |
| Looking Glass Township | #242 | A− | B | — | B+ | B |
| Breese Township | #136 | A | A− | — | A− | B+ |
| Lebanon Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Helvetia Township | #131 | A | B+ | — | A− | A− |
Sugar Creek Township, Looking Glass Township, Breese Township and Helvetia Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Lebanon Township isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Sugar Creek Township with a neighbor →
Questions about Sugar Creek Township
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Sugar Creek Township, IL a good place to live?
Yes, by almost any measure. Sugar Creek Township grades A overall, better than 93% of U.S. towns and #81 of 767 in Illinois. It grades B+ for health and A− for schools. Hazard risk is its weak spot, with a C−.
Is Sugar Creek Township, IL expensive?
Not for the area. Louis, MO-IL metro area). Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B+.