Sumpter TownshipIL
Is Sumpter Township a good place to live?
The best of Sumpter Township’s subject grades are an A for cost of living and an A− for history; the weakest is a C− for hazard risk. Only 92 of Illinois’ 1,284 towns score higher on cost of living. Sumpter Township’s average trip to work is 21 minutes, against 26 minutes in Illinois’ towns and 25 minutes across U.S. towns. Sumpter Township has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes Sumpter Township stand out
Where Sumpter Township beats most towns.
How Sumpter Township grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Illinois), ordered by how far Sumpter Township is from typical.
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Moving to Sumpter Township: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Sumpter 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 Sumpter Township.
Inland flooding leads a high hazard risk in Sumpter Township
Expected storm and flood damage is higher than in 69% of U.S. communities. One flood insurance claim has been paid in Sumpter Township since 2000.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Sumpter Township has four seasons and pleasant summers
Sumpter Township has chilly winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 86°, January nights drop to 21° and about 19 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
With 0.8 jobs for every working resident, most of Sumpter Township’s workers commute out
Most working residents leave Sumpter Township for work: only 14% work in town. 12% of Sumpter Township residents live below the poverty line, where Illinois’ towns sit at 8.4% and U.S. towns at 9.6%. The top destinations are Effingham (11%), Mattoon (10%) and Greenup (10%).
| Sumpter Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Working residents who work in town | 14% | 8.3% | 8% |
| Below the poverty line | 12% | 8.4% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $71,000 | $83,000 | $80,000 |
| Work from home | 9.6% | 11% | 11% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
On CDC estimates, Sumpter Township is less healthy than 55% of U.S. towns
Sumpter Township beats the Illinois average on 3 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 10. 40% of Sumpter Township adults have obesity.
| Sumpter Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 40% | 37% | 35% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 13% | 14% |
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 18% | 16% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 24% | 22% | 23% |
| What stands out | Sumpter Township | IL |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer uninsured adults | 7.5% | 9.9% |
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 10.6% | 13.2% |
| More older adults who have lost all their teeth | 13.8% | 10.3% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Sumpter Township has set aside 0.1% of its land for conservation
6.3 miles of trail in 2 parks and preserves.
| Sumpter Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conserved land | 0.1% | 3.7% | 4.3% |
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.1 miles per square mile | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Sumpter Neal Park | — | 10 |
| 2. Toledo Legion Ball Diamonds | — | 7 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about Sumpter Township
Colleges nearby
2 within 15 miles of the center of Sumpter Township
About 7 of every 100 Sumpter Township residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Illinois.
About Sumpter Township
Township in Illinois, United States
Sumpter Township is one of eight townships in Cumberland County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2020 census, its population was 2,051 and it contained 880 housing units.
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- Established
- 1860
- Area
- 46 sq mi
- Elevation
- 591 ft
Sumpter Township’s neighbors
6 towns share a border with Sumpter Township.
| Town | IL rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sumpter Township | — | — | A | — | B | B− |
| Greenup Township | — | — | A+ | — | B | C+ |
| Cottonwood Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Woodbury Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Neoga Township | #402 | B | A | — | C− | B |
| Spring Point Township | — | — | A | — | A− | B+ |
| Union Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Sumpter Township, Greenup Township and Spring Point Township have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Sumpter Township, Greenup Township, Neoga Township and Spring Point Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Cottonwood Township, Woodbury Township and Union Township aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Sumpter Township with a neighbor →
Questions about Sumpter Township
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Sumpter Township, IL expensive?
Not for the area. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades A.