Photo: NatFee · CC BY-SA 4.0Timber Township has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
Working from home is the commute for 5% of workers, next to 16% for Illinois as a whole. Timber Township has 255 jobs, against 995 working residents. For jobs and income Timber Township is better than 29% of U.S. towns (C); for walkability it is more walkable than 22% of U.S. towns (C−).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Timber Township, in brief
Timber Township and Peoria trade workers both ways
Peoria is the top workplace for Timber Township residents (27%) and also where the most people who work in Timber Township come from (10% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Timber Township is a place people come home to
There are 255 jobs based in Timber Township, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Timber Township has about 1,500 people in it, 33% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
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 995 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Timber Township earns its Jobs & income grade
Job access by car holds Timber Township’s grade up (ahead of 49% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (7.4%, U.S. 5.2%).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Timber Township could be anywhere from D to B+.
27% of working residents work in Peoria
Where Timber Township clocks in
5% 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.
A workday in Timber Township: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 939 residents head out to work, 56 work right here, and 199 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,500 people are in Timber Township on a workday afternoon, 33% 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Timber Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Timber Township, 2013 → 2023: 267 → 255. 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 Timber Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Timber Township: about 26 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Timber Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,076 commuters (the 5% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Timber Township
About 20% 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.
Timber Township is a driving town
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 10.8% across Illinois, on an EPA index of 3.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,137 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). 3.6% of Timber Township households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Timber Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Timber Township ranks: 3,313th of 5,102 U.S. towns of 1,600 to 3,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 28 | Prestbury IL | 2,045 | $165K | 1.9% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 57 | Wayne IL | 2,278 | $162K | 2.1% | 2.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,311 | Adams NY | 1,636 | $64K | 8.9% | 1.6% | 2% | C |
| 3,312 | Landrum SC | 2,865 | $44K | 19.5% | 2.7% | 9% | C |
| 3,313 | Timber Township IL | 2,234 | $74K | 14.1% | 7.4% | 6% | C |
| 3,314 | Wheeler Township MI | 2,569 | $61K | 12.3% | 4.9% | 12% | C |
| 3,315 | Sherwood Township MI | 1,983 | $65K | 9.9% | 6.1% | 1% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,102 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Timber Township, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
Timber Township and its neighbors
The biggest share goes to Hollis Township (4%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Timber Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Timber Township | – | C | C− | 26 min | $73,730 |
| Spring Lake Township | under 3% | B+ | D− | 31 min | $86,685 |
| Orion Township | under 3% | B− | D− | 30 min | $69,432 |
| Kingston Mines | under 3% | — | — | 25 min | — |
| Logan Township | under 3% | B+ | D | 23 min | $73,341 |
| Hollis Township | 4% | A− | D | 27 min | $87,069 |
| Banner Township | under 3% | — | — | 33 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Kingston Mines and Banner Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Timber 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 Timber Township: questions
What is the median household income in Timber Township?
$73,730 (±$10,178) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Timber Township?
14.1%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Timber Township?
26 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Timber Township work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Peoria (27%, 16 mi), Pekin (6%, 10 mi), Bartonville (5%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Timber Township walkable?
Timber Township is more walkable than 22% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 3.7 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Timber Township 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 Timber Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Timber 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.