Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 2,549, settled in 1871.
Yellowhead Township is a solid, middle-of-the-road choice. It grades C− overall, 642nd of 767 graded towns in Illinois, with no subject far below average. Its best mark is incomes: the median household earns $95K. Its lowest everyday mark is in cost of living: homes are expensive, about $247K for a typical one and 3.5 times the Kankakee metro’s $71K median household income. Yellowhead Township’s average trip to work is 33 minutes, above both Illinois’ towns (26 minutes) and U.S. towns (25 minutes). On the outdoors, just 98 of Illinois’ 1,285 towns do worse. Point School is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Where Yellowhead Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Illinois), ordered by how far Yellowhead Township is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 2,556 in 2000, 2,573 in 2020. The archive holds 4 maps from 1949 on.
1 place on the National Register of Historic Places.
Who provides power, water and the rest in Yellowhead Township, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Sep 12, 2025.
Ordered by what stands out in Yellowhead Township.
Yellowhead Township carries more natural-hazard risk than most of Illinois (mostly inland flooding), but it has little public open land and trails even towns with similar incomes on health.
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 96% of Illinois towns; that rating is what its C− for hazard risk is built on.
The FEMA risk score in Yellowhead Township is 84 of 100.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Its public schools are run by Grant Park CUSD 6. Its two schools are below.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grant Park Elem SchoolLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–8 | Grades PK–8 | 325 | B− |
| Grant Park High SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 127 | B− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within IL on state tests and graduation
Most working residents leave Yellowhead Township for work: only 7% work in town. Jobs based in Yellowhead Township fell to 503 in 2023, 74 fewer than in 2013. The top destinations are Chicago (8%), Kankakee (7%) and Momence (6%).
| Yellowhead Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $95,000 | $83,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 6.6% | 8.4% | 8% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Yellowhead Township has chilly winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 84°, January nights drop to 17° and about 24 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Against the 9,261 U.S. towns with household incomes like Yellowhead Township’s, it is less healthy than 82%, so it trails even them.
Yellowhead Township beats the Illinois average on 1 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 9. 39% of Yellowhead Township adults sleep under 7 hours.
| Yellowhead Township | Illinois towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 39% | 35% | 36% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 38% | 35% | 35% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 13% | 14% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 39% | 37% | 35% |
| What stands out | Yellowhead Township | IL |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 11.4% | 13.2% |
| More adults with COPD | 8.7% | 6.3% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Just 0 of its 27,952 acres are conserved, so there is little public open land in Yellowhead Township itself; its outdoors grade is D.
0.1 miles of trail in 1 park or preserve.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. American Legion Park | — | 3 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
1 within 15 miles of the center of Yellowhead Township
About 2 of every 100 Yellowhead Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Illinois.
Township in Illinois, United States
Yellowhead Township is one of seventeen townships in Kankakee County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2020 census, its population was 2,573 and it contained 1,059 housing units. Yellowhead Township derives its name from the Potawatomi warrior, Yellow Head, whose village was located at what is now Yellowhead Point.
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3 towns share a border with Yellowhead Township.
| Town | IL rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yellowhead Township | #642 | C− | C+ | — | C+ | C+ |
| Momence Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sumner Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Washington Township | #386 | B | B− | — | B− | B |
Yellowhead Township and Washington Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Momence Township and Sumner Township aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Yellowhead Township with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Yellowhead Township grades C− overall, better than 22% of U.S. towns and #642 of 767 in Illinois. It grades C+ for health and C+ for schools. Hazard risk is its weak spot, with a C−.
Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C+.