Photo: NatFee · CC BY-SA 4.0Earning a living in Manito
For 8% of workers, the job is at home, next to 16% for Illinois as a whole. Jobs and income earn Manito B−; getting around on foot earns it B+. About one in five work in Manito itself; outside it, Springfield draws the most (7%, 44 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Manito apart
Why Manito gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty and job access, Manito is better than 45% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Manito’s grade up (8.3%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 36% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (2.9%) is left out: Manito’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Manito could be anywhere from C to B.
Near or far: the trip to work from Manito
About 37% 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.
Manito by day and by night
On a workday 285 residents head out to work, 83 work right here, and 333 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.13 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.
The towns that employ Manito’s residents
Where Manito clocks in
7% 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 416 jobs in Manito are
416 jobs are based in Manito.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Manito, 2013 → 2023: 432 → 416. 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 Manito’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Manito: about 28 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Manito workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 778 commuters (the 8% 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.
In Manito, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Manito is more walkable than 65% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 10.8% across Illinois, on an EPA index of 7.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 843 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). 5.5% of Manito households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Manito’s commuters take a bus or train.
Manito is 2,524th of 6,308 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 2,000 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 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 32 | Tower Lakes IL | 1,201 | $154K | 2.0% | 2.8% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 35 | Third Lake IL | 1,103 | $150K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 40 | Lily Lake IL | 1,073 | $140K | 0.2% | 8.9% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,522 | Shoreham VT | 1,284 | $94K | 8.3% | 0.4% | 5% | B− |
| 2,523 | Macon IL | 1,120 | $69K | 7.4% | 2.0% | 9% | B− |
| 2,524 | Manito IL | 1,473 | $72K | 8.3% | 2.9% | 23% | B− |
| 2,525 | Brookston IN | 1,659 | $63K | 8.4% | 0.6% | 4% | B− |
| 2,526 | Bourbon IN | 1,674 | $74K | 10.9% | 4.3% | 13% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 6,308 | 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 Manito, 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 Manito: questions
What is the median household income in Manito?
$71,920 (±$7,786) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Manito?
8.3%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Manito?
28 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Manito work?
23% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Springfield (7%, 44 mi), Havana (4%, 17 mi), Cincinnati Township (4%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Manito walkable?
Manito is more walkable than 65% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 7.0 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Manito without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Manito, from the people who make the trip.
More of Manito
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.