Old Stone Hotel · Photo: IvoShandor · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.4 jobs for every working resident, most of Warren works elsewhere
There are 255 jobs in Warren, against 584 working residents. Warren grades C+ for jobs and income and B− for walkability. About one in ten work in Warren itself; outside it, Monroe draws the most (9%, 20 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How Warren earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Warren is better than 37% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Warren’s grade up ($75,813, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 23% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (2.7%) is left out: Warren’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, Warren could be anywhere from C− to B.
Warren by day and by night
On a workday 520 residents head out to work, 64 work right here, and 191 people come in from elsewhere.
About 950 people are in Warren on a workday afternoon, 26% 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.
Commuting out of Warren: the destinations
Where Warren clocks in
9% of workers
6% of workers
6% 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.
The kinds of work in Warren
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Warren, 2013 → 2023: 314 → 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 Warren’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Warren spends getting to work: about 28 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Warren workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 552 commuters (the 10% 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 distance from Warren to work
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.
Warren is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Warren is more walkable than 54% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 10.8% across Illinois, on an EPA index of 5.9.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 610 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). 4.4% of Warren households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Warren’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 4,866 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700, Warren comes 2,332nd 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 25 | Tower Lakes IL | 1,201 | $154K | 2.0% | 2.8% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 28 | Third Lake IL | 1,103 | $150K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 33 | Lily Lake IL | 1,073 | $140K | 0.2% | 8.9% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,330 | Edgar WI | 1,425 | $63K | 9.7% | 1.9% | 5% | C+ |
| 2,331 | Oak Grove WI | 1,020 | $76K | 16.6% | 1.8% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,332 | Warren IL | 1,275 | $76K | 9.9% | 2.7% | 11% | C+ |
| 2,333 | Milford IN | 1,686 | $52K | 9.4% | 1.7% | 6% | C+ |
| 2,334 | Auburn KS | 1,272 | $58K | 10.9% | 4.8% | 3% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | 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 Warren, 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 Warren: questions
What is the median household income in Warren?
$75,813 (±$11,097) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Warren?
9.9%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Warren?
28 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Warren work?
11% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Monroe (9%, 20 mi), Freeport (6%, 23 mi), Galena (6%, 23 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Warren walkable?
Warren is more walkable than 54% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 5.9 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Warren without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Warren, from the people who make the trip.
More of Warren
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.