Photo: Daniel Schwen · CC BY-SA 4.0Thomasboro has 0.4 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Thomasboro grades C+ for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. Employers in Thomasboro report 153 jobs, and 388 of its residents work somewhere. Home is the office for 4% of workers (Illinois 16%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Thomasboro: the figures worth knowing
Commutes from Thomasboro are quick
The average trip to work takes 21 minutes, against 28 across Illinois. That’s about 54 hours a year less on the road than the typical Illinois worker. Time on the road ↓
Few Thomasboro workers work from home
Only 4% 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; with 388 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Why Thomasboro gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty and job access, Thomasboro is better than 36% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Thomasboro’s grade up (ahead of 54% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($64,038, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (1.3%) is left out: Thomasboro’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Thomasboro could be anywhere from C− to B−.
Each way, about 21 minutes from Thomasboro
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Thomasboro workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 436 commuters (the 4% 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.
A workday in Thomasboro: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 383 residents head out to work, 5 work right here, and 148 people come in from elsewhere.
About 770 people are in Thomasboro on a workday afternoon, 23% 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.
22% of working residents work in Champaign
Where Thomasboro clocks in
22% of workers
13% 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.
56% of the jobs in Thomasboro make or build things
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Thomasboro, 2013 → 2023: 198 → 153. 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 Thomasboro’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Thomasboro’s commute, mile by mile
About 21% 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.
Most of Thomasboro commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Thomasboro is more walkable than 36% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any 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 453 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% 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 under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% 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). 4.0% of Thomasboro households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Thomasboro’s commuters take a bus or train.
1,512th of 3,133: where Thomasboro ranks among U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 19 | Tower Lakes IL | 1,201 | $154K | 2.0% | 2.8% | <1% | A+ |
| 20 | Third Lake IL | 1,103 | $150K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 24 | Lily Lake IL | 1,073 | $140K | 0.2% | 8.9% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,510 | Ballard UT | 1,303 | $87K | 11.9% | 8.0% | 7% | C+ |
| 1,511 | Elder Township PA | 1,016 | $62K | 7.5% | 1.4% | 5% | C+ |
| 1,512 | Thomasboro IL | 1,003 | $64K | 13.2% | 1.3% | 1% | C+ |
| 1,513 | Clifty Township IN | 1,062 | $88K | 18.9% | 12.8% | 1% | C+ |
| 1,514 | Belmont ME | 1,021 | $61K | 4.3% | 6.9% | <1% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Thomasboro, 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 Thomasboro: questions
What is the median household income in Thomasboro?
$64,038 (±$6,426) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Thomasboro?
13.2%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Thomasboro?
21 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Thomasboro work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Champaign (22%, 10 mi), Rantoul (15%, 4 mi), Urbana (13%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Thomasboro walkable?
Thomasboro is more walkable than 36% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 8.3 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Thomasboro without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Thomasboro, from the people who make the trip.
More of Thomasboro
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.