Unemployment in Madison Township (14.4%) is among the highest in the country
For jobs and income Madison Township is better than 12% of U.S. towns (D); for walkability it is more walkable than 70% of U.S. towns (B+). Measured by household income, Madison Township is behind 79% of U.S. towns. Working from home is the commute for 4% of workers, next to 12% for Kansas as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Madison Township and work: the main findings
A big share show a job far from home
57% 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 ↓
Commutes from Madison Township are quick
The average trip to work takes 9 minutes, against 20 across Kansas. That’s about 84 hours a year less on the road than the typical Kansas worker, and quicker than any town next door (17 to 34 minutes). Time on the road ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Madison Township than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Madison Township fell from 738 in 2014 to 452 in 2024, −39%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
Madison Township and Manhattan trade workers both ways
Manhattan is the top workplace for Madison Township residents (21%) and also where the most people who work in Madison Township come from (13% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
A young workforce
32% of Madison Township’s working residents are 29 or younger. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, 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 Madison Township’s Jobs & income grade
The poverty rate holds Madison Township’s grade up (10.9%, U.S. 12.5%); unemployment pulls it down.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Madison Township could be anywhere from D to C.
Half of Madison Township commutes less than 62 miles
About 57% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
About 9 minutes each way for Madison Township’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 2.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Madison Township workers work from home, vs 12% across Kansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 6,178 commuters (the 4% 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.
What work there is in Madison Township: 452 jobs
452 jobs are based in Madison Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Madison Township, 2014 → 2024: 738 → 452. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Madison Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
21% of working residents work in Manhattan
Where Madison Township clocks in
21% of workers
7% of workers
6% 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 Madison Township: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 1,219 residents head out to work, 47 work right here, and 405 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.
0.36 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 2024, primary jobs.
In Madison Township, the car does most of the work
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 56.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.4% across Kansas, on an EPA index of 5.6.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 6,452 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 Madison Township households have no vehicle (Kansas 5.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Madison Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Madison Township next to U.S. towns of 6,600 to 12,700
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 196 | Tecumseh Township KS | 7,829 | $110K | 2.7% | 1.2% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 249 | Eudora Township KS | 7,870 | $119K | 4.6% | 2.3% | 12% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 458 | Spring Hill KS | 10,777 | $112K | 7.7% | 2.1% | 7% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,588 | East Liverpool OH | 9,569 | $34K | 32.9% | 5.9% | 13% | D |
| 2,589 | Lancaster SC | 9,623 | $46K | 21.2% | 9.6% | 15% | D |
| 2,590 | Madison Township KS | 9,403 | $56K | 10.9% | 14.4% | 4% | D |
| 2,591 | Quincy FL | 8,162 | $32K | 42.7% | 4.1% | 13% | D |
| 2,592 | Canton NY | 6,894 | $62K | 19.8% | 6.5% | 29% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 2,806 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 6% | 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 Madison Township, the top three, the last and three more from Kansas.
Bordering towns draw 21% of Madison Township’s workers
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Madison Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Madison Township | – | D | B+ | 9 min | $56,367 |
| Ogden Township | under 2% | B | C− | 20 min | $83,864 |
| Jefferson Township | under 2% | D | C+ | 18 min | $41,667 |
| Wildcat Township | under 2% | — | — | 34 min | — |
| Milford Township | under 2% | B | C+ | 21 min | $93,889 |
| Sherman Township | under 2% | — | — | 28 min | — |
| Bala Township | under 2% | — | — | 21 min | — |
| Ogden | under 2% | B− | C− | 22 min | $68,421 |
| Keats | under 2% | — | — | — | — |
| Manhattan | 21% | B− | A | 17 min | $60,172 |
Same-state neighbors only. Wildcat Township, Sherman Township, Bala Township and Keats: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Manhattan. Darker towns draw more of Madison 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 2024, 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 Madison Township: questions
What is the median household income in Madison Township?
$56,367 (±$9,420) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,275 across Kansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Madison Township?
10.9%, against 11.3% across Kansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Madison Township?
9 minutes each way on average, against 20 across Kansas and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Madison Township work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Manhattan (21%, 11 mi), Wichita (7%, 109 mi), Topeka (6%, 61 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Madison Township walkable?
Madison Township is more walkable than 70% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 5.6 out of 20, and 56% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Madison Township without a car?
0% 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 Madison Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Madison Township
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.