Sugar Creek Township has 0.5 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Sugar Creek Township has 1,524 jobs for 3,238 working residents. Jobs and income earn Sugar Creek Township A−; getting around on foot earns it B. Measured by household income, Sugar Creek Township is ahead of 79% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Sugar Creek Township, in a few figures
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Sugar Creek Township
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Sugar Creek Township is better than 78% of U.S. towns, #263 of 768 in Illinois. Household income is its strongest input ($102,723, U.S. $80,734); unemployment ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (3.4%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on the poverty rate and unemployment and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Sugar Creek Township could be anywhere from B to A.
7% of working residents work in Breese
Where Sugar Creek Township clocks in
7% of workers
7% of workers
6% 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.
In and out of Sugar Creek Township on a workday
On a workday 2,805 residents head out to work, 433 work right here, and 1,091 people come in from elsewhere.
About 5,000 people are in Sugar Creek Township on a workday afternoon, 25% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
The kinds of work in Sugar Creek Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Sugar Creek Township, 2014 → 2024: 1,627 → 1,524. 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 Sugar Creek Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Sugar Creek Township: about 27 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Sugar Creek Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,790 commuters (the 13% 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.
The commute from Sugar Creek Township, by distance
About 15% 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.
In Sugar Creek Township, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Sugar Creek Township is more walkable than 64% of U.S. towns, #444 of 768 in Illinois. Both inputs place Sugar Creek Township 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 3,210 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). 3.1% of Sugar Creek Township households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Sugar Creek Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
848th of 3,253: where Sugar Creek Township ranks among U.S. towns of 4,700 to 9,100
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Norwood NJ | 5,817 | $178K | 2.8% | 0.9% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 11 | South Barrington IL | 5,071 | $222K | 1.0% | 2.0% | 3% | A+ |
| 12 | Long Grove IL | 8,343 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 24 | Riverside IL | 8,939 | $154K | 3.3% | 1.9% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 846 | Berwick ME | 8,436 | $95K | 4.2% | 2.5% | 5% | A− |
| 847 | Forest Glen MD | 6,840 | $128K | 7.0% | 6.6% | 2% | A− |
| 848 | Sugar Creek Township IL | 6,723 | $103K | 6.5% | 3.4% | 13% | A− |
| 849 | Warren Township IN | 7,787 | $90K | 11.0% | 1.0% | 3% | A− |
| 850 | Butler Township OH | 8,421 | $93K | 8.9% | 3.1% | 5% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,253 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 6% | 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 Sugar Creek Township, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
How Sugar Creek Township compares with the towns next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Sugar Creek Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sugar Creek Township | – | A− | B | 27 min | $102,723 |
| Looking Glass Township | under 3% | A− | B+ | 26 min | $92,163 |
| Breese Township | under 3% | B+ | C+ | 28 min | $87,194 |
| Lebanon Township | under 3% | — | — | 24 min | — |
| Helvetia Township | under 3% | A− | C | 30 min | $84,590 |
Same-state neighbors only. Lebanon Township: not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Sugar Creek Township’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Sugar Creek Township: questions
What is the median household income in Sugar Creek Township?
$102,723 (±$8,357) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Sugar Creek Township?
6.5%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Sugar Creek Township?
27 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Sugar Creek Township work?
13% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Breese (7%, 7 mi), Trenton (7%, 2 mi), Belleville (6%, 19 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Sugar Creek Township walkable?
Sugar Creek Township is more walkable than 64% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 7.4 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Sugar Creek Township without a car?
1% 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 Sugar Creek Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Sugar Creek Township
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.