Point School · Photo: Jon Roanhaus · CC BY-SA 3.0Unemployment in Yellowhead Township (9.4%) is higher than in 93% of U.S. towns
Working from home is the commute for 8% of workers; Illinois has 16%. For jobs and income Yellowhead Township is better than 47% of U.S. towns (B−); for walkability it is more walkable than 56% of U.S. towns (B). Only 7% work in Yellowhead Township itself; outside it, Chicago draws the most (8%, 40 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Yellowhead Township, in brief
Yellowhead Township’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Yellowhead Township is Chicago, 40 miles away as the crow flies. 8% of working residents (87) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Yellowhead Township makes and builds things
41% of the jobs based in Yellowhead Township are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Yellowhead Township residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 23%. The jobs ↓
Yellowhead Township workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 33 minutes each way, against 28 across Illinois. Over a year that’s about 253 hours of commuting, 38 more than the state’s typical 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.
Inside Yellowhead Township’s Jobs & income grade
Household income holds Yellowhead Township’s grade up ($95,231, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down. It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Yellowhead Township could be anywhere from C to A−.
How far it is to work from Yellowhead Township
About 20% 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.
A place that makes things: 41% of Yellowhead Township’s jobs are in goods
503 jobs are based in Yellowhead Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Yellowhead Township, 2013 → 2023: 577 → 503. 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 Yellowhead Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 33 minutes each way, longer than most of Illinois
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Yellowhead Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 912 commuters (the 9% 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.
Who commutes out of Yellowhead Township, and who commutes in
On a workday 980 residents head out to work, 69 work right here, and 434 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,000 people are in Yellowhead Township on a workday afternoon, 21% fewer than live here.
0.48 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.
The towns that employ Yellowhead Township’s residents
Where Yellowhead Township clocks in
8% of workers
7% 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.
In Yellowhead Township, the car does most of the work
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 10.8% across Illinois, on an EPA index of 6.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 997 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). 3.4% of Yellowhead Township households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Yellowhead Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 4,868 U.S. towns of 1,800 to 3,400, Yellowhead Township comes 2,326th 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+ |
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| 30 | Prestbury IL | 2,045 | $165K | 1.9% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 56 | Wayne IL | 2,278 | $162K | 2.1% | 2.7% | 1% | A+ |
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| 2,324 | Carthage NC | 3,070 | $83K | 14.2% | 2.7% | 8% | B− |
| 2,325 | Nicoma Park OK | 2,294 | $62K | 17.8% | 3.5% | 2% | B− |
| 2,326 | Yellowhead Township IL | 2,549 | $95K | 9.5% | 9.4% | 7% | B− |
| 2,327 | Middletown NY | 3,250 | $78K | 11.8% | 0.9% | 35% | B− |
| 2,328 | River Bend NC | 2,890 | $72K | 8.2% | 4.3% | 5% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,868 | 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 Yellowhead Township, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
Around Yellowhead Township: the bordering towns
The biggest share goes to Momence Township (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Yellowhead Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yellowhead Township | – | B− | B | 33 min | $95,231 |
| Momence Township | 3% | — | — | 31 min | — |
| Sumner Township | under 2% | — | — | 27 min | — |
| Washington Township | under 2% | A | C+ | 30 min | $102,250 |
Same-state neighbors only. Momence Township: not graded. Sumner Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Yellowhead 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 Yellowhead Township: questions
What is the median household income in Yellowhead Township?
$95,231 (±$10,854) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Yellowhead Township?
9.5%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Yellowhead Township?
33 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Yellowhead Township work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Chicago (8%, 40 mi), Kankakee (7%, 18 mi), Momence (6%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Yellowhead Township walkable?
Yellowhead Township is more walkable than 56% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 6.5 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Yellowhead Township without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Yellowhead Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Yellowhead 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.