Bennington Township has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
For jobs and income Bennington Township is better than 43% of U.S. towns (C+); for walkability it is more walkable than 28% of U.S. towns (C). There are 140 jobs in Bennington Township for 524 working residents. Only 6% stay in Bennington Township for work; outside it, Salina is the main destination (41%, 13 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Bennington Township and work: the main findings
41% of Bennington Township works in Salina
216 working residents, 41%, have their main job in Salina, 13 miles away. That’s 7 times as many as work in Bennington Township itself. The commute map ↓
Bennington Township is a place people come home to
There are 140 jobs based in Bennington Township, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Bennington Township has about 890 people in it, 30% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Bennington Township workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 25 minutes each way, against 20 across Kansas. Over a year that’s about 192 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; with 524 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Bennington Township earns its Jobs & income grade
Household income holds Bennington Township’s grade up ($85,556, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 15% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (2.7%) is left out: Bennington Township’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, Bennington Township could be anywhere from C− to B+.
Where Bennington Township goes to work
Where Bennington Township clocks in
9% 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.
A workday in Bennington Township: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 495 residents head out to work, 29 work right here, and 111 people come in from elsewhere.
About 890 people are in Bennington Township on a workday afternoon, 30% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
From Bennington Township, about 25 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bennington Township workers work from home, vs 12% across Kansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 605 commuters (the 7% who work from home are left out). Across Kansas: 85% drive alone, <1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Bennington Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bennington Township, 2013 → 2023: 189 → 140. 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 Bennington Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The distance from Bennington Township to work
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.
In Bennington Township, the car does most of the work
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.4% across Kansas, on an EPA index of 5.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 654 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). 0.6% of Bennington Township households have no vehicle (Kansas 5.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Bennington Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Bennington Township is 1,992nd of 4,866 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
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| 49 | Lake Quivira KS | 1,005 | $178K | 3.8% | 0.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 52 | Lexington Township KS | 1,512 | $135K | 0.0% | 2.7% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 96 | Delaware Township KS | 1,121 | $119K | 2.4% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,990 | Atkinson Township IL | 1,199 | $58K | 6.1% | 7.0% | 3% | C+ |
| 1,991 | Franklin Township IN | 1,179 | $69K | 7.5% | 0.8% | 1% | C+ |
| 1,992 | Bennington Township KS | 1,269 | $86K | 8.6% | 2.7% | 6% | C+ |
| 1,993 | Turtle Creek Township OH | 1,555 | $84K | 15.8% | 3.9% | 1% | C+ |
| 1,994 | Bakersfield VT | 1,307 | $83K | 7.3% | 4.9% | 2% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | 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 Bennington Township, the top three, the last and three more from Kansas.
How Bennington Township compares with the towns next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Bennington Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bennington Township | – | C+ | C | 25 min | $85,556 |
| Buckeye Township | under 2% | — | — | — | — |
| Elm Creek Township | under 2% | — | — | 21 min | — |
| Concord Township | under 2% | — | — | 10 min | — |
| Culver Township | under 2% | — | — | 13 min | — |
| Pleasant Valley Township | under 2% | — | — | 33 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Buckeye Township, Concord Township, Culver Township and Pleasant Valley Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Elm Creek Township: not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Bennington 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 Bennington Township: questions
What is the median household income in Bennington Township?
$85,556 (±$20,562) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,275 across Kansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bennington Township?
8.6%, against 11.3% across Kansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bennington Township?
25 minutes each way on average, against 20 across Kansas and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bennington Township work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Salina (41%, 13 mi), Minneapolis (9%, 10 mi), Bennington (5%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Bennington Township walkable?
Bennington Township is more walkable than 28% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 5.2 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Bennington Township without a car?
1% 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 Bennington Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bennington 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.