Wauponsee TownshipIL
A town of 2,353.
Is Wauponsee Township a good place to live?
Wauponsee Township’s best subject grade is an A− for incomes; its weakest is a D for walkability. On walkability, just 52 of Illinois’ 1,284 towns do worse. FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 81% of U.S. communities, with inland flooding at the top. On civic life, just 107 of Illinois’ 1,240 towns do worse. Mazon Creek Fossil Beds is on the National Register of Historic Places. Wauponsee Township has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
How Wauponsee Township grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Illinois), ordered by how far Wauponsee Township is from typical.
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Moving to Wauponsee Township: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Wauponsee Township, and how to reach them.
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The data
Ordered by what stands out in Wauponsee Township.
The biggest natural risk in Wauponsee Township is inland flooding, at a very high overall level
Households in Wauponsee Township have drawn federal disaster aid once, in 1999. Expected losses in Wauponsee Township break down as 60% from inland flooding and 27% from cold waves. 13 flood insurance claims have been paid in the town since 1982.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Wauponsee Township: four seasons and pleasant summers
July afternoons reach 85°, January nights drop to 16° and about 25 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Wauponsee Township has 0.8 jobs per working resident, so most workers leave town for work
In Wauponsee Township, the average trip to work is 23 minutes. Just 3% of the town’s working residents have a job in town. 2.8% of residents live below the poverty line in the town, below both Illinois’ towns (8.4%) and U.S. towns (9.6%). Between 2013 and 2023, jobs in the town rose by 710, to 904.
| Wauponsee Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $118,000 | $83,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 2.8% | 8.4% | 9.6% |
| Average trip to work | 23 minutes | 26 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 2.8% | 8.3% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Wauponsee Township ranks healthier than three in five of the country’s towns
Against the Illinois average, Wauponsee Township comes out ahead on 4 CDC measures out of 32, and behind on 2. 19% of adults binge drink here, above both the Illinois town median (18%) and the median of U.S. towns (16%). Among adults in the town, 35% sleep under 7 hours.
| Wauponsee Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 18% | 16% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 35% | 35% | 36% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 32% | 33% | 33% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 22% | 22% | 23% |
| What stands out | Wauponsee Township | IL |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 13% | 15.9% |
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 10.9% | 13.2% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 9.2% | 7.6% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
4.7% of Wauponsee Township is conserved land
1.8 miles of trail. In Wauponsee Township, the trail network density is 0.1 miles per square mile.
| Wauponsee Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.1 miles per square mile | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 4.7% | 3.7% | 4.3% |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about Wauponsee Township
Colleges nearby
None within 15 miles of Wauponsee Township; the nearest are
About 5 of every 100 Wauponsee Township residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Illinois.
About Wauponsee Township
Unincorporated community in Illinois, United States
Wauponsee is an unincorporated community in Vienna Township, Grundy County, Illinois, United States. Wauponsee is located on Verona Road, 6.9 miles (11.1 km) south-southwest of Morris.
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- Elevation
- 620 ft
Wauponsee Township’s neighbors
6 towns share a border with Wauponsee Township.
| Town | IL rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wauponsee Township | — | — | B+ | — | C+ | B |
| Goose Lake Township | — | — | C+ | — | A− | B |
| Morris Township | #468 | B− | B− | — | C+ | B |
| Morris | #442 | B | B− | C+ | B+ | B |
| Erienna Township | — | — | B | — | B+ | B |
| Norman Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Mazon Township | — | — | B+ | — | B− | B |
Wauponsee Township, Goose Lake Township, Erienna Township and Mazon Township have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Wauponsee Township, Goose Lake Township, Morris Township, Erienna Township and Mazon Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Norman Township isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Wauponsee Township with a neighbor →
Questions about Wauponsee Township
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Wauponsee Township, IL expensive?
Not for the area. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B+.