Iowa, Sac, and Fox Presbyterian Mission · Photo: SharonPapierdreams · CC BY-SA 4.0Household incomes in Iowa Township top those of 75% of U.S. towns
Poverty touches 6.1% of residents, against 11.3% across Kansas. The two grades for Iowa Township are B for jobs and income and B for walkability. About one in seven work in Iowa Township itself; outside it, Highland draws the most (11%, 3 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Iowa Township
The quickest commute around
Iowa Township’s 17-minute average trip is shorter than in any town next door, where it runs from 25 to 36 minutes. Next door ↓
A big share show a job far from home
35% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Many jobs in Iowa Township pay little
31% of the jobs based in Iowa Township pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. Young workers hold many of them: 32% of all the jobs here go to people 29 or younger. 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 605 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Iowa Township’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty and job access, Iowa Township is better than 57% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Iowa Township’s grade up ($97,829, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 16% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (2.4%) is left out: Iowa 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, Iowa Township could be anywhere from C+ to B+.
Where in the region Iowa Township works
About 35% 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Iowa Township
426 jobs are based in Iowa Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Iowa Township, 2013 → 2023: 530 → 426. 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 Iowa Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who commutes out of Iowa Township, and who commutes in
On a workday 524 residents head out to work, 81 work right here, and 345 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Iowa Township on a workday afternoon, 12% fewer than live here.
0.70 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.
Where people from Iowa Township work
Where Iowa Township clocks in
10% 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.
Commuting from Iowa Township: about 17 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Iowa Township workers work from home, vs 12% across Kansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 549 commuters (the 16% 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.
In Iowa Township, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Iowa Township is more walkable than 59% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 15.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.4% across Kansas, on an EPA index of 4.7.
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). 3.2% of Iowa Township households have no vehicle (Kansas 5.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Iowa Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Iowa Township is 1,774th 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 59 | Lake Quivira KS | 1,005 | $178K | 3.8% | 0.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 63 | Lexington Township KS | 1,512 | $135K | 0.0% | 2.7% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 79 | Westwood KS | 1,720 | $118K | 1.9% | 2.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,772 | Delaware City DE | 1,939 | $85K | 6.4% | 7.5% | 4% | B |
| 1,773 | Hart Township IN | 1,636 | $63K | 4.4% | 4.9% | 2% | B |
| 1,774 | Iowa Township KS | 1,463 | $98K | 6.1% | 2.4% | 13% | B |
| 1,775 | Wakeshma Township MI | 1,331 | $78K | 6.9% | 12.0% | 1% | B |
| 1,776 | Genoa NV | 1,284 | $122K | 7.4% | 4.1% | 4% | 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 Iowa Township, the top three, the last and three more from Kansas.
Iowa Township and the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Center Township (2%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Iowa Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa Township | – | B | B | 17 min | $97,829 |
| Wolf River Township | under 3% | — | — | 28 min | — |
| Irving Township | under 3% | — | — | 36 min | — |
| Center Township | 2% | C− | B+ | 25 min | $59,196 |
Same-state neighbors only. Wolf River Township and Irving Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Iowa 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 Iowa Township: questions
What is the median household income in Iowa Township?
$97,829 (±$10,165) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,275 across Kansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Iowa Township?
6.1%, against 11.3% across Kansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Iowa Township?
17 minutes each way on average, against 20 across Kansas and 26 nationally. 16% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Iowa Township work?
13% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Highland (11%, 3 mi), St. Joseph (10%, 26 mi), Hiawatha (6%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Iowa Township walkable?
Iowa Township is more walkable than 59% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 4.7 out of 20, and 15% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Iowa Township 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 Iowa Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Iowa 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.