Wauponsee Township has higher household incomes than 87% of U.S. towns
3% of workers work from home; Illinois has 16%. Poverty touches 2.8% of residents, against 11.8% across Illinois. The two grades for Wauponsee Township are A− for jobs and income and D for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Wauponsee Township and work: the main findings
Stores, warehouses and trucking
67% of the jobs in Wauponsee Township are in trade, transport and utilities, against 26% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
Wauponsee Township and Morris trade workers both ways
Morris is the top workplace for Wauponsee Township residents (17%) and also where the most people who work in Wauponsee Township come from (19% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Few Wauponsee Township workers work from home
Only 3% of workers work from home, against 16% across Illinois. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
Commutes from Wauponsee Township are quick
The average trip to work takes 23 minutes, against 28 across Illinois. That’s about 38 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.
What’s behind Wauponsee Township’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Wauponsee Township is better than 81% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Wauponsee Township’s grade up; unemployment pulls it down (4.7%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Wauponsee Township could be anywhere from B to A+.
The 904 jobs based in Wauponsee Township
904 jobs are based in Wauponsee Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Wauponsee Township, 2013 → 2023: 194 → 904. 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 Wauponsee Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
17% of working residents work in Morris
Where Wauponsee Township clocks in
17% of workers
9% 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.
Wauponsee Township’s commute takes about 23 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Wauponsee Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,204 commuters (the 3% 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.
Wauponsee Township by day and by night
On a workday 1,152 residents head out to work, 33 work right here, and 871 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,100 people are in Wauponsee Township on a workday afternoon, 12% fewer than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.76 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
How far it is to work from Wauponsee Township
About 21% 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.
In Wauponsee Township, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Wauponsee Township is more walkable than 6% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Wauponsee Township near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,240 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). 1.4% of Wauponsee Township households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Wauponsee Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,600 to 3,200, Wauponsee Township ranks 758th of 5,552 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 34 | Prestbury IL | 2,045 | $165K | 1.9% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 67 | Wayne IL | 2,278 | $162K | 2.1% | 2.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 756 | Southworth WA | 2,286 | $123K | 0.4% | 3.1% | 1% | A− |
| 757 | Frisco CO | 2,792 | $114K | 1.3% | 2.4% | 14% | A− |
| 758 | Wauponsee Township IL | 2,353 | $118K | 2.8% | 4.7% | 3% | A− |
| 759 | Williamsburg MA | 2,445 | $105K | 2.3% | 3.7% | 6% | A− |
| 760 | East Kingston NH | 2,434 | $138K | 14.3% | 1.1% | 4% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,552 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Wauponsee Township, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
Wauponsee Township and its neighbors: 17% work next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Wauponsee Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wauponsee Township | – | A− | D | 23 min | $117,928 |
| Goose Lake Township | under 2% | A+ | D− | 34 min | $116,648 |
| Morris Township | under 2% | B | B+ | 21 min | $74,458 |
| Morris | 17% | B+ | B+ | 22 min | $76,711 |
| Erienna Township | under 2% | A | B | 20 min | $96,906 |
| Norman Township | under 2% | — | — | 30 min | — |
| Mazon Township | under 2% | B | B− | 24 min | $82,273 |
Same-state neighbors only. Norman Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Morris. Darker towns draw more of Wauponsee 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 Wauponsee Township: questions
What is the median household income in Wauponsee Township?
$117,928 (±$28,022) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Wauponsee Township?
2.8%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Wauponsee Township?
23 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Wauponsee Township work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Morris (17%, 4 mi), Chicago (9%, 52 mi), Joliet (6%, 20 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Wauponsee Township walkable?
Wauponsee Township is more walkable than 6% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 3.9 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Wauponsee Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Wauponsee Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Wauponsee 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.