Photo: Ichabod · CC BY-SA 3.0Household incomes in Kingman trail those of 89% of U.S. towns
10.4% of residents are in poverty; Kansas has 11.3%. Kingman grades C− for jobs and income and B− for walkability. Working from home is the commute for 3% of workers, where Kansas as a whole has 12%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Kingman apart on work
Kingman’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Kingman is Wichita, 42 miles away as the crow flies. 14% of working residents (217) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Few Kingman workers work from home
Only 3% of workers work from home, against 12% across Kansas. Almost everyone here travels to a job. 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.
The figures behind Kingman’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Kingman is better than 23% of U.S. towns, #131 of 151 in Kansas. Unemployment holds Kingman’s grade up (4.4%, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($48,750, U.S. $80,734).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Kingman could be anywhere from D to B.
The distance from Kingman to work
About 18% 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.
From Kingman, about 19 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Kingman workers work from home, vs 12% across Kansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,440 commuters (the 3% 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.
The daily flow of workers through Kingman
On a workday 950 residents head out to work, 573 work right here, and 819 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 (0.91 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.
14% of working residents work in Wichita
Where Kingman clocks in
14% of workers
3% 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 1,392 jobs in Kingman are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Kingman, 2013 → 2023: 1,491 → 1,392. 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 Kingman’s own residents hold wherever they work.
In Kingman, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Kingman is more walkable than 53% of U.S. towns, #84 of 151 in Kansas. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.4% across Kansas, on an EPA index of 6.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,478 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). 5.0% of Kingman households have no vehicle (Kansas 5.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Kingman’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Kingman is 3,702nd of 4,882 U.S. towns of 2,000 to 3,900
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 48 | Oxford Township KS | 2,058 | $163K | 1.9% | 2.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 63 | Minneha Township KS | 3,472 | $143K | 2.1% | 1.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,700 | Westfall Township PA | 3,423 | $72K | 8.2% | 15.0% | 9% | C− |
| 3,701 | Dixmoor IL | 2,951 | $45K | 23.6% | 8.3% | 2% | C− |
| 3,702 | Kingman KS | 2,884 | $49K | 10.4% | 4.4% | 38% | C− |
| 3,703 | Balcones Heights TX | 2,728 | $29K | 45.9% | 6.0% | 2% | C− |
| 3,704 | Colstrip MT | 2,091 | $83K | 9.4% | 8.2% | 41% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,882 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 12% | 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 Kingman, the top three, the last and three more from Kansas.
How Kingman compares with the towns next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Kingman workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kingman | – | C− | B− | 19 min | $48,750 |
| Ninnescah Township | under 2% | — | — | 12 min | — |
| White Township | under 2% | — | — | 22 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Ninnescah Township and White Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Kingman’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 Kingman: questions
What is the median household income in Kingman?
$48,750 (±$15,526) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,275 across Kansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Kingman?
10.4%, against 11.3% across Kansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Kingman?
19 minutes each way on average, against 20 across Kansas and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Kingman work?
38% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Wichita (14%, 42 mi), Peters Township (3%, 14 mi), Hutchinson (3%, 31 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Kingman walkable?
Kingman is more walkable than 53% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 6.4 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Kingman without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Kingman, from the people who make the trip.
More of Kingman
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.