Most of Ursa Township commutes out: there are 0.3 jobs for every working resident
There are 168 jobs in Ursa Township for 526 working residents. Jobs and income earn Ursa Township C+; getting around on foot earns it D. For 5% of workers, the job is at home (Illinois 16%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Ursa Township in brief
43% of Ursa Township works in Quincy
228 working residents, 43%, have their main job in Quincy, 10 miles away. That’s 14 times as many as work in Ursa Township itself. The commute map ↓
Commutes from Ursa Township 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 ↓
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 526 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Jobs & income in Ursa Township: the grade in detail
On income, poverty and job access, Ursa Township is better than 38% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Ursa Township’s grade up (7.5%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 24% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (4.6%) is left out: Ursa Township’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Ursa Township could be anywhere from D to B+.
43% of working residents work in Quincy
Where Ursa Township clocks in
43% of workers
4% 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.
About 21 minutes each way for Ursa Township’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ursa Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 485 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.
The daily flow of workers through Ursa Township
On a workday 512 residents head out to work, 14 work right here, and 154 people come in from elsewhere.
About 730 people are in Ursa 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.
A place that makes things: 29% of Ursa Township’s jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ursa Township, 2013 → 2023: 151 → 168. 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 Ursa Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where in the region Ursa Township works
About 25% 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.
Ursa Township is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Ursa Township is more walkable than 8% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 0.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 10.8% across Illinois, on an EPA index of 3.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 509 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). 2.9% of Ursa Township households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Ursa Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500, Ursa Township ranks 1,743rd of 3,771 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+ |
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| 21 | Tower Lakes IL | 1,201 | $154K | 2.0% | 2.8% | <1% | A+ |
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| 23 | Third Lake IL | 1,103 | $150K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
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| 28 | Lily Lake IL | 1,073 | $140K | 0.2% | 8.9% | 0% | A+ |
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| 1,741 | Cherry Township PA | 1,494 | $85K | 8.5% | 2.5% | 9% | C+ |
| 1,742 | Byng OK | 1,414 | $76K | 7.7% | 5.5% | 1% | C+ |
| 1,743 | Ursa Township IL | 1,088 | $67K | 7.5% | 4.6% | 3% | C+ |
| 1,744 | Wiconisco Township PA | 1,157 | $68K | 7.5% | 7.2% | 1% | C+ |
| 1,745 | Saxeville WI | 1,026 | $72K | 7.2% | 3.4% | 2% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | 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 Ursa Township, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
Ursa Township and the towns next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Ursa Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ursa Township | – | C+ | D | 21 min | $67,083 |
| Lima Township | under 2% | — | — | 22 min | — |
| Mendon Township | under 2% | C+ | B− | 26 min | $76,048 |
| Riverside Township | under 2% | B | C | 13 min | $80,859 |
Same-state neighbors only. Lima Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Ursa 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 Ursa Township: questions
What is the median household income in Ursa Township?
$67,083 (±$22,049) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Ursa Township?
7.5%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ursa Township?
21 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Ursa Township work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Quincy (43%, 10 mi), Ellington Township (8%, 8 mi), Springfield (4%, 95 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Ursa Township walkable?
Ursa Township is more walkable than 8% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 3.3 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Ursa Township 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 Ursa Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ursa 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.