Twigg Township has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
Home is the office for 7% of workers; Illinois has 16%. Twigg Township has 20 jobs, and 176 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any work in Twigg Township itself; outside it, Mount Vernon draws the most (17%, 31 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
In and out of Twigg Township on a workday
On a workday 176 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 20 people come in from elsewhere.
About 320 people are in Twigg 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.
Where people from Twigg Township work
Where Twigg Township clocks in
17% 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.
What Twigg Township’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
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 Twigg Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Twigg Township: about 37 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Twigg Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 117 commuters (the 7% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Twigg Township
About 22% 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 towns around Twigg Township
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Twigg Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Twigg Township | – | — | — | 37 min | $97,955 |
| Flannigan Township | under 2% | — | — | — | — |
| South Twigg Township | under 2% | — | — | — | — |
| McLeansboro Township | under 2% | C | B+ | 25 min | $52,809 |
| Mayberry Township | under 2% | — | — | 31 min | — |
| Crook Township | under 2% | — | — | 31 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Flannigan Township, South Twigg Township, Mayberry Township and Crook Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Twigg 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 Twigg Township: questions
What is the median household income in Twigg Township?
$97,955 (±$54,730) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Twigg Township?
0.7%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Twigg Township?
37 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Twigg Township work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Mount Vernon (17%, 31 mi), McLeansboro (13%, 7 mi), Dahlgren Township (5%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Twigg Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Twigg Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Twigg 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.