For about half of its working residents, Warrensburg is a commute to Decatur
7% of workers have no commute at all; Illinois has 16%. Jobs and income earn Warrensburg B; getting around on foot earns it D. Only 2% work in Warrensburg itself; outside it, Decatur draws the most (45%, 9 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Warrensburg
Nearly half of Warrensburg works in Decatur
218 working residents, 45%, have their main job in Decatur, 8.6 miles away. That’s 23 times as many as work in Warrensburg itself. The commute map ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Warrensburg than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Warrensburg fell from 334 in 2013 to 207 in 2023, −38%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
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 480 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Warrensburg
On income, poverty and job access, Warrensburg is better than 56% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Warrensburg’s grade up (8.1%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 42% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (5.6%) is left out: Warrensburg’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, Warrensburg could be anywhere from C to A−.
Out of Warrensburg to work: where people go
Where Warrensburg clocks in
5% 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.
What the 207 jobs in Warrensburg are
207 jobs are based in Warrensburg.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Warrensburg, 2013 → 2023: 334 → 207. 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 Warrensburg’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many people are in Warrensburg by day
On a workday 472 residents head out to work, 8 work right here, and 199 people come in from elsewhere.
About 800 people are in Warrensburg on a workday afternoon, 26% fewer than live here.
0.43 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.
From Warrensburg, about 25 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Warrensburg workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 377 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.
Miles to work from Warrensburg
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 commute in Warrensburg is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Warrensburg is more walkable than 15% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 10.8% across Illinois, on an EPA index of 4.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 404 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). 4.8% of Warrensburg households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Warrensburg’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 3,133 U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400, Warrensburg comes 863rd 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 19 | Tower Lakes IL | 1,201 | $154K | 2.0% | 2.8% | <1% | A+ |
| 20 | Third Lake IL | 1,103 | $150K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 24 | Lily Lake IL | 1,073 | $140K | 0.2% | 8.9% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 861 | Centerville Township MI | 1,281 | $98K | 6.3% | 1.9% | 1% | B |
| 862 | Scandia Valley Township MN | 1,346 | $82K | 3.2% | 0.8% | 5% | B |
| 863 | Warrensburg IL | 1,068 | $82K | 8.1% | 5.6% | 2% | B |
| 864 | Crosby ND | 1,027 | $83K | 0.0% | 2.3% | 34% | B |
| 865 | Ettrick WI | 1,307 | $86K | 6.2% | 1.1% | 1% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | 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 Warrensburg, 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 Warrensburg: questions
What is the median household income in Warrensburg?
$81,719 (±$24,523) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Warrensburg?
8.1%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Warrensburg?
25 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Warrensburg work?
2% work in town.
Is Warrensburg walkable?
Warrensburg is more walkable than 15% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.5 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Warrensburg without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Warrensburg, from the people who make the trip.
More of Warrensburg
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.