Photo: TCP04 · CC BY 4.0Unemployment in Manteno Township (2.4%) is lower than in 79% of U.S. towns
For jobs and income Manteno Township is better than 88% of U.S. towns (A); for walkability it is more walkable than 70% of U.S. towns (B+). About one in seven stay in Manteno Township for work; outside it, Manteno is the main destination (10%, 0 miles). Measured by household income, Manteno Township is ahead of 71% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Manteno Township stands out on work
Inside Manteno Township’s Jobs & income grade
All four inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Manteno Township’s grade. It also does well on household income and unemployment and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Manteno Township could be anywhere from B+ to A+.
The daily commute in and out of Manteno Township
On a workday 4,042 residents head out to work, 702 work right here, and 3,784 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 (0.95 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.
Where people from Manteno Township work
Where Manteno Township clocks in
10% of workers
9% of workers
8% 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 Manteno Township’s employers do
4,486 jobs are based in Manteno Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Manteno Township, 2013 → 2023: 3,772 → 4,486. 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 Manteno Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Manteno Township’s commute takes about 32 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Manteno Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 4,431 commuters (the 11% 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.
The commute from Manteno Township, by distance
About 16% 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.
Manteno Township is a driving town
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 4,996 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). 4.3% of Manteno Township households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Manteno Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Manteno Township places 472nd of 2,507 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 8,000 to 15,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Ladue MO | 8,934 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.7% | 5% | A+ |
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| 7 | Long Grove IL | 8,343 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 17 | Riverside IL | 8,939 | $154K | 3.3% | 1.9% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 30 | Western Springs IL | 13,588 | $230K | 1.3% | 3.1% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 470 | Waterloo IL | 11,132 | $99K | 5.9% | 2.3% | 16% | A |
| 471 | Farmington MI | 11,409 | $98K | 4.8% | 3.9% | 4% | A |
| 472 | Manteno Township IL | 11,202 | $92K | 4.6% | 2.4% | 15% | A |
| 473 | North Greenbush NY | 13,523 | $117K | 5.1% | 3.4% | 5% | A |
| 474 | Lake Morton-Berrydale WA | 11,183 | $130K | 3.7% | 3.6% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,507 | Roma TX | 11,543 | $25K | 37.1% | 12.4% | 22% | 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 Manteno Township, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
Next door to Manteno Township
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Manteno Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manteno Township | – | A | B+ | 32 min | $92,476 |
| Rockville Township | under 2% | — | — | 38 min | — |
| Bourbonnais Township | under 2% | B− | A− | 23 min | $76,228 |
| Sumner Township | under 2% | — | — | 27 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Rockville Township and Sumner Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Manteno 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 Manteno Township: questions
What is the median household income in Manteno Township?
$92,476 (±$16,664) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Manteno Township?
4.6%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Manteno Township?
32 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Manteno Township work?
15% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Manteno (10%, 0 mi), Kankakee (9%, 10 mi), Chicago (8%, 41 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Manteno Township walkable?
Manteno Township is more walkable than 70% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 7.4 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Manteno Township without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Manteno Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Manteno 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.