Photo: Mark Michalovic · CC BY-SA 3.0Inman has lower household incomes than 75% of U.S. towns
Home is the office for 2% of workers, where Kansas as a whole has 12%. 4.2% of residents are in poverty, where Kansas as a whole has 11.3%. Jobs and income earn Inman B−; getting around on foot earns it A−.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Inman apart on work
Inman and Moundridge trade workers both ways
Moundridge is the top workplace for Inman residents (23%) and also where the most people who work in Inman come from (10% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Inman
56% of Inman residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 37% of the jobs based in Inman pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 95% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Many jobs in Inman pay little
27% of the jobs based in Inman pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. The jobs ↓
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 560 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Inman
On income, poverty and job access, Inman is better than 49% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Inman’s grade up; household income pulls it down ($59,250, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (3.6%) is left out: Inman’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, Inman could be anywhere from C to B.
23% of working residents work in Moundridge
Where Inman clocks in
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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Inman
411 jobs are based in Inman.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Inman, 2013 → 2023: 474 → 411. 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 Inman’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily commute in and out of Inman
On a workday 530 residents head out to work, 30 work right here, and 381 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Inman on a workday afternoon, 11% fewer than live here.
0.73 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.
About 20 minutes each way for Inman’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Inman workers work from home, vs 12% across Kansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 548 commuters (the 2% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Inman
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.
Good to walk, short on transit: Inman
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Inman is more walkable than 77% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 7.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.4% across Kansas, on an EPA index of 7.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 561 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). 2.7% of Inman households have no vehicle (Kansas 5.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Inman’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Inman is 1,918th of 5,400 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,800
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 52 | Lake Quivira KS | 1,005 | $178K | 3.8% | 0.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 56 | Lexington Township KS | 1,512 | $135K | 0.0% | 2.7% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 69 | Westwood KS | 1,720 | $118K | 1.9% | 2.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,916 | Great Bend Township PA | 1,682 | $81K | 8.2% | 5.5% | 9% | B− |
| 1,917 | Winter Park CO | 1,217 | $69K | 2.4% | 0.0% | 33% | B− |
| 1,918 | Inman KS | 1,309 | $59K | 4.2% | 3.6% | 5% | B− |
| 1,919 | Hiawatha Township MI | 1,326 | $79K | 3.2% | 2.0% | 1% | B− |
| 1,920 | Richfield WI | 1,652 | $82K | 8.6% | 3.1% | 1% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | 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 Inman, the top three, the last and three more from Kansas.
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 Inman: questions
What is the median household income in Inman?
$59,250 (±$13,016) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,275 across Kansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Inman?
4.2%, against 11.3% across Kansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Inman?
20 minutes each way on average, against 20 across Kansas and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Inman work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Moundridge (23%, 14 mi), McPherson (15%, 11 mi), Wichita (8%, 44 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Inman walkable?
Inman is more walkable than 77% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 7.2 out of 20, and 7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Inman without a car?
0% 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 Inman, from the people who make the trip.
More of Inman
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.