Household incomes in Wano Township are lower than in 83% of U.S. towns
Below the poverty line: 16.5% of residents, next to 11.3% across Kansas. The two grades for Wano Township are D for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. Working from home is the commute for 20% of workers; Kansas has 12%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Wano Township at work: what stands out
Wano Township and St. Francis trade workers both ways
St. Francis is the top workplace for Wano Township residents (38%) and also where the most people who work in Wano Township come from (38% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Most jobs in Wano Township go to people who live here
Of the 568 jobs based in Wano Township, 51% are held by Wano Township residents. In most towns, people from elsewhere hold most of the local jobs. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Wano Township are quick
The average trip to work takes 11 minutes, against 20 across Kansas. That’s about 69 hours a year less on the road than the typical Kansas worker. 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; with 632 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The figures behind Wano Township’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Wano Township is better than 5% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Wano Township’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (near the bottom of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (2.4%) is left out: Wano 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, Wano Township could be anywhere from D− to D.
38% of working residents work in St. Francis
Where Wano Township clocks in
Lines 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 342 residents head out to work, 290 work right here, and 278 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 (0.90 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.
About 11 minutes to work from Wano Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 3.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Wano Township workers work from home, vs 12% across Kansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 569 commuters (the 20% 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 the 568 jobs in Wano Township are
568 jobs are based in Wano Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Wano Township, 2013 → 2023: 588 → 568. 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 Wano Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Half of Wano Township commutes less than 14 miles
About 31% 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.
Few in Wano Township walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Wano Township is more walkable than 67% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.4% across Kansas, on an EPA index of 7.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 715 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). 2.2% of Wano Township households have no vehicle (Kansas 5.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Wano Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Wano Township compares with U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
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| 47 | Oxford Township KS | 2,058 | $163K | 1.9% | 2.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 53 | Lexington Township KS | 1,512 | $135K | 0.0% | 2.7% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 73 | Westwood KS | 1,720 | $118K | 1.9% | 2.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,215 | Mabton WA | 1,967 | $57K | 27.8% | 10.7% | 3% | D |
| 5,216 | Hurley WI | 1,617 | $47K | 14.6% | 3.0% | 29% | D |
| 5,217 | Wano Township KS | 1,737 | $54K | 16.5% | 2.4% | 46% | D |
| 5,218 | Milam TX | 1,258 | $51K | 14.9% | 10.9% | 5% | D |
| 5,219 | Fanning Springs FL | 1,349 | $54K | 18.6% | 7.3% | 3% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,760 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Wano Township, the top three, the last and three more from Kansas.
Next door to Wano Township
The biggest share goes to Orlando Township (2%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Wano Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wano Township | – | D | B+ | 11 min | $53,980 |
| Cleveland Run Township | under 2% | — | — | — | — |
| Orlando Township | 2% | — | — | — | — |
| Benkelman Township | under 2% | — | — | — | — |
| Jaqua Township | under 2% | — | — | — | — |
| Bird City Township | 2% | — | — | 14 min | — |
| Voltaire Township | under 2% | — | — | 19 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Cleveland Run Township, Orlando Township, Benkelman Township, Jaqua Township, Bird City Township and Voltaire Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Wano 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 Wano Township: questions
What is the median household income in Wano Township?
$53,980 (±$5,872) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,275 across Kansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Wano Township?
16.5%, against 11.3% across Kansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Wano Township?
11 minutes each way on average, against 20 across Kansas and 26 nationally. 20% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Wano Township work?
46% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are St. Francis (38%, 3 mi), Bird City (7%, 18 mi), Goodland (5%, 31 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Wano Township walkable?
Wano Township is more walkable than 67% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 7.1 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Wano Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Wano Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Wano 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.