Photo: Original uploader was JimDunning at en.wikipedia (Original text : James H Dunning) · CC BY 2.5Most of Manchester commutes out: there are 0.5 jobs for every working resident
Manchester grades B for jobs and income and B− for walkability. Employers in Manchester report 386 jobs, against 748 working residents. Working from home is the commute for 6% of workers; New York has 15%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Manchester stands out on work
Commutes from Manchester are quick
The average trip to work takes 20 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 100 hours a year less on the road than the typical New York worker. Time on the road ↓
Manchester makes and builds things
50% of the jobs based in Manchester are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Manchester residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 22%. The jobs ↓
Young people hold many of the jobs here
33% of the jobs based in Manchester are held by workers 29 or younger, against 22% of Manchester’s own working residents. 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 748 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The figures behind Manchester’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Manchester is better than 58% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Manchester’s grade up (7.2%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($65,750, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on job access by car.
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Manchester’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Manchester could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
Time on the road from Manchester: about 20 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Manchester workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 754 commuters (the 6% who work from home are left out). Across New York: 57% drive alone, 25% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Making and building: 50% of jobs based in Manchester
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Manchester, 2013 → 2023: 308 → 386. 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 Manchester’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The workday shuffle in and out of Manchester
On a workday 721 residents head out to work, 27 work right here, and 359 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Manchester on a workday afternoon, 22% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
12% of working residents work in Manchester
Where Manchester clocks in
7% 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.
How far Manchester goes to work
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.
For most of Manchester, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Manchester is more walkable than 52% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 6.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 806 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). 5.8% of Manchester households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Manchester’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,200, Manchester ranks 1,772nd of 6,161 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 4 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 5 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,770 | Woodward IA | 1,426 | $66K | 7.0% | 1.1% | 3% | B |
| 1,771 | Avon MN | 1,777 | $92K | 9.8% | 2.6% | 11% | B |
| 1,772 | Manchester NY | 1,628 | $66K | 7.2% | 0.0% | 4% | B |
| 1,773 | Groton SD | 1,337 | $90K | 4.3% | 1.1% | 12% | B |
| 1,774 | Marion Township MI | 1,653 | $99K | 5.4% | 2.4% | 3% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 6,161 | 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 Manchester, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Next door to Manchester
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Manchester workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manchester | – | B | B− | 20 min | $65,750 |
| Shortsville | under 4% | A− | C | 19 min | $91,058 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Manchester’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 Manchester: questions
What is the median household income in Manchester?
$65,750 (±$14,199) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Manchester?
7.2%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Manchester?
20 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Manchester work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Manchester (12%, 2 mi), Rochester (7%, 24 mi), Farmington (7%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Manchester walkable?
Manchester is more walkable than 52% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 6.4 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Manchester without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Manchester, from the people who make the trip.
More of Manchester
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.