Photo: Kevin Zollman Kzollman 22:00, 4 May 2006 (UTC) · CC BY-SA 3.0Work means Manhattan for more than half of Manhattan Township’s working residents
The two grades for Manhattan Township are C+ for jobs and income and B− for walkability. Home is the office for 3% of workers, next to 12% for Kansas as a whole. Only 2% stay in Manhattan Township for work; outside it, Manhattan is the main destination (52%, 5 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Manhattan Township, in a few figures
More than half of Manhattan Township works in Manhattan
457 working residents, 52%, have their main job in Manhattan, 5.3 miles away across the town line. That’s 26 times as many as work in Manhattan Township itself. The commute map ↓
Manhattan Township makes and builds things
70% of the jobs based in Manhattan Township are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Manhattan Township residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 17%. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Manhattan Township are quick
The average trip to work takes 12 minutes, against 20 across Kansas. That’s about 61 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 ↓
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; with 883 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Why Manhattan Township gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty and job access, Manhattan Township is better than 39% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Manhattan Township’s grade up (8.1%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($63,182, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (0.4%) is left out: Manhattan 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, Manhattan Township could be anywhere from C− to B+.
The places Manhattan Township commutes to
Where Manhattan Township clocks in
52% of workers
8% of workers
4% 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.
In Manhattan Township, 70% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
939 jobs are based in Manhattan Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Manhattan Township, 2014 → 2024: 843 → 939. 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 Manhattan Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 12 minutes in Manhattan Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 3.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Manhattan Township workers work from home, vs 12% across Kansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 766 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.
Who works in Manhattan Township, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 868 residents head out to work, 15 work right here, and 924 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 (1.06 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
The distance from Manhattan Township to work
About 23% 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.
Driving is how Manhattan Township gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Manhattan Township is more walkable than 54% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 9.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.4% across Kansas, on an EPA index of 4.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 790 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). 7.3% of Manhattan Township households have no vehicle (Kansas 5.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Manhattan Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Manhattan Township next to U.S. towns of 1,600 to 3,000: 2,765th of 5,102 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 36 | Oxford Township KS | 2,058 | $163K | 1.9% | 2.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 58 | Westwood KS | 1,720 | $118K | 1.9% | 2.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 60 | Ohio Township KS | 2,219 | $158K | 0.6% | 0.6% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,763 | West Union IA | 2,424 | $54K | 11.6% | 1.4% | 30% | C+ |
| 2,764 | Vinton TX | 2,446 | $66K | 18.3% | 2.2% | 2% | C+ |
| 2,765 | Manhattan Township KS | 2,256 | $63K | 8.1% | 0.4% | 2% | C+ |
| 2,766 | West Franklin Township PA | 1,655 | $68K | 8.7% | 2.4% | 3% | C+ |
| 2,767 | Pike Township PA | 2,273 | $84K | 9.7% | 2.4% | 3% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,102 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 61% | 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 Manhattan Township, the top three, the last and three more from Kansas.
53% of Manhattan Township works in a town next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Manhattan Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manhattan Township | – | C+ | B− | 12 min | $63,182 |
| Manhattan | 52% | B− | A | 17 min | $60,172 |
| Blue Township | 1% | A− | C | 21 min | $118,385 |
| Ashland Township | under 2% | — | — | — | — |
| Ogden Township | under 2% | B | C− | 20 min | $83,864 |
| Wildcat Township | under 2% | — | — | 34 min | — |
| Zeandale Township | under 2% | — | — | — | — |
| Grant Township | under 2% | — | — | 27 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Ashland Township, Wildcat Township, Zeandale Township and Grant Township: 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 Manhattan 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 Manhattan Township: questions
What is the median household income in Manhattan Township?
$63,182 (±$19,272) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,275 across Kansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Manhattan Township?
8.1%, against 11.3% across Kansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Manhattan Township?
12 minutes each way on average, against 20 across Kansas and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Manhattan Township work?
2% work in town.
Is Manhattan Township walkable?
Manhattan Township is more walkable than 54% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 4.5 out of 20, and 9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Manhattan Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Manhattan Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Manhattan 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.