Pierre Martin House · Photo: Nyttend · Public domainSugar Loaf Township has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
Employers in Sugar Loaf Township report 1,365 jobs for 3,271 working residents. Sugar Loaf Township grades B for jobs and income and C for walkability. 8% of workers work from home (Illinois 16%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Sugar Loaf Township stands out on work
How Sugar Loaf Township earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Sugar Loaf Township is better than 57% of U.S. towns, #443 of 768 in Illinois. Job access by car holds Sugar Loaf Township’s grade up (ahead of 88% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (8.1%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on the poverty rate.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Sugar Loaf Township could be anywhere from C+ to A.
68% of the jobs in Sugar Loaf Township pay over $3,333 a month
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Sugar Loaf Township, 2013 → 2023: 1,225 → 1,365. 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 Sugar Loaf Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Sugar Loaf Township on a workday afternoon
On a workday 3,008 residents head out to work, 263 work right here, and 1,102 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4,700 people are in Sugar Loaf Township on a workday afternoon, 29% 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 2023, primary jobs.
12% of working residents work in St. Louis
Where Sugar Loaf Township clocks in
12% 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.
Sugar Loaf Township’s commute takes about 25 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Sugar Loaf Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,711 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.
How far Sugar Loaf Township goes to work
About 16% 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 Sugar Loaf Township, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Sugar Loaf Township is more walkable than 32% of U.S. towns, #650 of 768 in Illinois. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 10.8% across Illinois.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,931 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 14% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 1.9 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 68% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 6.1% of Sugar Loaf Township households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Sugar Loaf Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Sugar Loaf Township next to U.S. towns of 4,600 to 8,900: 1,604th of 3,283 on jobs and income
| # | 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% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 10 | South Barrington IL | 5,071 | $222K | 1.0% | 2.0% | 4% | A+ |
| 11 | Long Grove IL | 8,343 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 34 | Northfield IL | 5,632 | $162K | 3.2% | 2.2% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,602 | Franklin NH | 8,839 | $72K | 7.0% | 2.8% | 13% | B |
| 1,603 | Laie HI | 5,699 | $125K | 12.2% | 6.1% | 21% | B |
| 1,604 | Sugar Loaf Township IL | 6,601 | $73K | 6.2% | 8.1% | 8% | B |
| 1,605 | Cambridge Township MI | 5,763 | $77K | 4.8% | 3.9% | 8% | B |
| 1,606 | Groesbeck OH | 7,824 | $62K | 9.8% | 3.9% | 2% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,283 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Loaf Township, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
Work next door: 21% of Sugar Loaf Township’s workers
The biggest share goes to St. Louis (12%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Sugar Loaf Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sugar Loaf Township | – | B | C | 25 min | $72,985 |
| Centreville Township | under 2% | C− | A | 26 min | $34,675 |
| Stookey Township | under 2% | B | B+ | 23 min | $81,894 |
| Cahokia Heights | 3% | C− | A | 26 min | $33,792 |
| Millstadt Township | under 2% | A− | C− | 23 min | $91,144 |
| Dupo | 6% | B− | C+ | 26 min | $61,644 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Sugar Loaf 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 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 Sugar Loaf Township: questions
What is the median household income in Sugar Loaf Township?
$72,985 (±$12,430) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Sugar Loaf Township?
6.2%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Sugar Loaf Township?
25 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Sugar Loaf Township work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are St. Louis (12%, 9 mi), Dupo (6%, 2 mi), Columbia (6%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Sugar Loaf Township walkable?
Sugar Loaf Township is more walkable than 32% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 6.8 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Sugar Loaf Township without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Sugar Loaf Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Sugar Loaf Township
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.