Photo: Patriarca12 · CC BY-SA 3.0Household incomes in Mantachie are lower than in 65% of U.S. towns
Only 7% work in Mantachie; the top destination outside it is Tupelo (37%, 14 miles). Poverty touches 13.0% of residents, against 18.9% across Mississippi. Jobs and income earn Mantachie C+; getting around on foot earns it C−.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Mantachie and work: the main findings
37% of Mantachie works in Tupelo
245 working residents, 37%, have their main job in Tupelo, 14 miles away. That’s 5 times as many as work in Mantachie itself. The commute map ↓
Mantachie makes and builds things
62% of the jobs based in Mantachie are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Mantachie residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 28%. The jobs ↓
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 657 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Mantachie
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Mantachie is better than 36% of U.S. towns. Unemployment holds Mantachie’s grade up (4.1%, U.S. 5.2%); the poverty rate pulls it down.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Mantachie could be anywhere from D to A−.
Where Mantachie goes to work
Where Mantachie clocks in
37% of workers
10% of workers
2% 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 place that makes things: 62% of Mantachie’s jobs are in goods
737 jobs are based in Mantachie.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mantachie, 2013 → 2023: 238 → 737. 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 Mantachie’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many people are in Mantachie by day
On a workday 611 residents head out to work, 46 work right here, and 691 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 (1.12 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 25 minutes each way for Mantachie’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mantachie workers work from home, vs 6% across Mississippi. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 901 commuters (the 8% who work from home are left out). Across Mississippi: 87% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Mantachie
About 16% 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.
The commute in Mantachie is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Mantachie is more walkable than 18% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Mantachie 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 977 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). 3.0% of Mantachie households have no vehicle (Mississippi 6.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Mantachie’s commuters take a bus or train.
1,811th of 3,771: where Mantachie ranks among U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500
| # | 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% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,226 | Columbus AFB MS | 1,293 | $70K | 6.3% | 1.9% | 4% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,414 | Hurley MS | 1,305 | $133K | 12.6% | 4.7% | 1% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,509 | Robinhood MS | 1,298 | $70K | 14.1% | 5.1% | 1% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,809 | Innovation VA | 1,034 | $32K | 11.9% | 14.2% | 3% | C+ |
| 1,810 | Calmar IA | 1,098 | $93K | 12.5% | 0.5% | 4% | C+ |
| 1,811 | Mantachie MS | 1,143 | $66K | 13.0% | 4.1% | 7% | C+ |
| 1,812 | Pershing Township IN | 1,362 | $73K | 9.8% | 6.7% | <1% | C+ |
| 1,813 | Superior Township OH | 1,282 | $67K | 9.9% | 0.0% | 1% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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 Mantachie, the top three, the last and three more from Mississippi.
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 Mantachie: questions
What is the median household income in Mantachie?
$65,568 (±$20,207) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $56,447 across Mississippi and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mantachie?
13.0%, against 18.9% across Mississippi and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mantachie?
25 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Mississippi and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mantachie work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tupelo (37%, 14 mi), Fulton (10%, 7 mi), Saltillo (2%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Mantachie walkable?
Mantachie is more walkable than 18% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 5.4 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Mantachie without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mantachie, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mantachie
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.