Work, pay and getting to work in Mount Pleasant Township
Poverty touches 3.3% of residents, against 11.3% across Kansas. The two grades for Mount Pleasant Township are B− for jobs and income and C− for walkability. Only 8% work in Mount Pleasant Township itself; outside it, Parsons draws the most (32%, 12 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Mount Pleasant Township apart
What’s behind Mount Pleasant Township’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Mount Pleasant Township is better than 49% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Mount Pleasant Township’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 16% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (1.3%) is left out: Mount Pleasant 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, Mount Pleasant Township could be anywhere from C to B+.
Where Mount Pleasant Township goes to work
Where Mount Pleasant Township clocks in
32% of workers
5% 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.
Who leaves, who stays, who comes in
On a workday 409 residents head out to work, 35 work right here, and 318 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 (0.80 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Mount Pleasant Township
353 jobs are based in Mount Pleasant Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mount Pleasant Township, 2014 → 2024: 392 → 353. 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 Mount Pleasant Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 23 minutes each way for Mount Pleasant Township’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mount Pleasant Township workers work from home, vs 12% across Kansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 758 commuters (the 6% 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.
How far Mount Pleasant Township’s workers travel
About 22% 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.
For most of Mount Pleasant Township, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Mount Pleasant Township is more walkable than 21% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Mount Pleasant Township near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 805 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). 1.3% of Mount Pleasant Township households have no vehicle (Kansas 5.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Mount Pleasant Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Mount Pleasant Township is 1,710th among 4,866 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700
| # | 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% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
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| 49 | Lake Quivira KS | 1,005 | $178K | 3.8% | 0.0% | 2% | A+ |
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| 52 | Lexington Township KS | 1,512 | $135K | 0.0% | 2.7% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 96 | Delaware Township KS | 1,121 | $119K | 2.4% | 0.0% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,708 | East Bangor PA | 1,101 | $81K | 15.7% | 4.8% | <1% | B− |
| 1,709 | Warsaw VA | 1,692 | $85K | 6.5% | 1.4% | 11% | B− |
| 1,710 | Mount Pleasant Township KS | 1,271 | $69K | 3.3% | 1.3% | 8% | B− |
| 1,711 | Dedham ME | 1,673 | $111K | 9.0% | 3.5% | 5% | B− |
| 1,712 | Eveline Township MI | 1,502 | $102K | 8.0% | 1.6% | 2% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Mount Pleasant Township, the top three, the last and three more from Kansas.
Mount Pleasant Township and the towns next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Mount Pleasant Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Pleasant Township | – | B− | C− | 23 min | $69,107 |
| Fairview Township | under 2% | — | — | 16 min | — |
| Mound Valley Township | under 2% | — | — | 21 min | — |
| Canada Township | under 2% | — | — | — | — |
| Elm Grove Township | under 2% | — | — | 24 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Fairview Township, Mound Valley Township, Canada Township and Elm Grove Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Mount Pleasant 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 Mount Pleasant Township: questions
What is the median household income in Mount Pleasant Township?
$69,107 (±$19,619) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,275 across Kansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mount Pleasant Township?
3.3%, against 11.3% across Kansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mount Pleasant Township?
23 minutes each way on average, against 20 across Kansas and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mount Pleasant Township work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Parsons (32%, 12 mi), Altamont (8%, 2 mi), Coffeyville (5%, 20 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Mount Pleasant Township walkable?
Mount Pleasant Township is more walkable than 21% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 5.5 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Mount Pleasant 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 Mount Pleasant Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mount Pleasant 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.