Photo: Nyttend · Public domainTaylorville’s household incomes are lower than in 78% of U.S. towns
Taylorville grades C+ for jobs and income and B− for walkability. 12.4% of residents live below the poverty line (Illinois 11.8%). For 3% of workers, the job is at home, against 16% across Illinois.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Taylorville
Taylorville trades workers with the towns around it
Taylorville has about as many jobs (3,714) as working residents (4,336), but they are mostly different people: 3,177 residents leave for work each day while 2,555 people come in. Only 31% of the jobs in Taylorville are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Taylorville are quick
The average trip to work takes 20 minutes, against 28 across Illinois. That’s about 61 hours a year less on the road than the typical Illinois worker. Time on the road ↓
Taylorville’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Taylorville is Springfield, 23 miles away as the crow flies. 18% of working residents (792) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Few Taylorville workers work from home
Only 3% of workers work from home, against 16% across Illinois. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
The four measures behind Taylorville’s grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Taylorville is better than 38% of U.S. towns, #579 of 768 in Illinois. Unemployment holds Taylorville’s grade up (3.5%, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($57,552, U.S. $80,734).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Taylorville could be anywhere from C− to B.
Taylorville by day and by night
On a workday 3,177 residents head out to work, 1,159 work right here, and 2,555 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 (0.86 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
About 20 minutes each way for Taylorville’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Taylorville workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 4,816 commuters (the 3% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Taylorville
About 29% 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.
18% of working residents work in Springfield
Where Taylorville clocks in
18% of workers
3% 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.
Jobs in Taylorville: what the 3,714 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Taylorville, 2013 → 2023: 4,811 → 3,714. 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 Taylorville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
In Taylorville, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Taylorville is more walkable than 45% of U.S. towns, #577 of 768 in Illinois. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.7% 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 4,984 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). 7.2% of Taylorville households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Taylorville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 7,000 to 14,000, Taylorville ranks 2,033rd of 2,878 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Ladue MO | 8,934 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.7% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 7 | Long Grove IL | 8,343 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 16 | Riverside IL | 8,939 | $154K | 3.3% | 1.9% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 31 | Western Springs IL | 13,588 | $230K | 1.3% | 3.1% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,031 | Lincoln AL | 8,110 | $57K | 15.6% | 3.5% | 9% | C+ |
| 2,032 | Union Township OH | 8,028 | $58K | 12.1% | 2.2% | 8% | C+ |
| 2,033 | Taylorville IL | 10,522 | $58K | 12.4% | 3.5% | 27% | C+ |
| 2,034 | Mill Township IN | 10,416 | $56K | 15.5% | 3.1% | 16% | C+ |
| 2,035 | Oneonta AL | 7,022 | $54K | 18.2% | 1.8% | 20% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,878 | 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 Taylorville, 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 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 Taylorville: questions
What is the median household income in Taylorville?
$57,552 (±$7,219) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Taylorville?
12.4%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Taylorville?
20 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Taylorville work?
27% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Springfield (18%, 23 mi), Decatur (5%, 29 mi), Bloomington (3%, 66 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Taylorville walkable?
Taylorville is more walkable than 45% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 8.1 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Taylorville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Taylorville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Taylorville
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.