Household incomes in Toulon are lower than in 75% of U.S. towns
6% of workers have no commute at all, against 16% across Illinois. 11.3% of residents live below the poverty line, next to 11.8% for Illinois as a whole. Jobs and income earn Toulon C−; getting around on foot earns it C−.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Toulon: the gist
How Toulon earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Toulon is better than 24% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Toulon’s grade up; household income pulls it down ($59,167, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (2.9%) is left out: Toulon’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, Toulon could be anywhere from D to C+.
How far it is to work from Toulon
About 24% 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.
The daily commute in and out of Toulon
On a workday 507 residents head out to work, 49 work right here, and 335 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,000 people are in Toulon on a workday afternoon, 15% fewer than live here.
0.69 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
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 Peoria
Where Toulon clocks in
9% 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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Toulon
384 jobs are based in Toulon.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Toulon, 2013 → 2023: 391 → 384. 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 Toulon’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 30 minutes to work from Toulon
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Toulon workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 587 commuters (the 6% 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.
Driving is how Toulon gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Toulon is more walkable than 18% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.2% 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 623 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). 3.1% of Toulon households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Toulon’s commuters take a bus or train.
Toulon next to U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600: 2,747th of 4,312 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 23 | Tower Lakes IL | 1,201 | $154K | 2.0% | 2.8% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 25 | Third Lake IL | 1,103 | $150K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 30 | Lily Lake IL | 1,073 | $140K | 0.2% | 8.9% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,745 | Kline Township PA | 1,482 | $53K | 16.0% | 5.7% | 1% | C− |
| 2,746 | Ransom Township PA | 1,495 | $60K | 22.4% | 14.0% | 1% | C− |
| 2,747 | Toulon IL | 1,172 | $59K | 11.3% | 2.9% | 9% | C− |
| 2,748 | Wells NV | 1,245 | $107K | 21.3% | 5.5% | 31% | C− |
| 2,749 | Holgate OH | 1,050 | $51K | 9.9% | 5.8% | 7% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | 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 Toulon, 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 Toulon: questions
What is the median household income in Toulon?
$59,167 (±$6,777) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Toulon?
11.3%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Toulon?
30 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Toulon work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Peoria (12%, 27 mi), Kewanee (9%, 11 mi), Bradford (7%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Toulon walkable?
Toulon is more walkable than 18% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 5.9 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Toulon without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Toulon, from the people who make the trip.
More of Toulon
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.