Snells Bush Church and Cemetery · Photo: Liz Spraker · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.5 jobs for every working resident, most of Manheim works elsewhere
There are 642 jobs in Manheim, against 1,299 working residents. Jobs and income earn Manheim B−; getting around on foot earns it B. About one in seven work in Manheim itself; outside it, Little Falls draws the most (10%, 3 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Manheim at work: what stands out
Manheim makes and builds things
52% of the jobs based in Manheim are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Manheim residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 22%. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Manheim are quick
The average trip to work takes 25 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 61 hours a year less on the road than the typical New York 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.
Manheim’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Manheim is better than 53% of U.S. towns, #391 of 758 in New York. Unemployment holds Manheim’s grade up (1.9%, U.S. 5.2%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 23% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Manheim could be anywhere from C to A−.
Making and building: 52% of jobs based in Manheim
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Manheim, 2013 → 2023: 752 → 642. 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 Manheim’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 25 minutes each way for Manheim’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 Manheim workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,252 commuters (the 9% 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.
Who works in Manheim, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 1,115 residents head out to work, 184 work right here, and 458 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,400 people are in Manheim 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.
The places Manheim commutes to
Where Manheim clocks in
10% of workers
8% of workers
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.
The commute from Manheim, by distance
About 25% 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.
Manheim is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Manheim is more walkable than 63% of U.S. towns, #409 of 758 in New York. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.2% 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 1,382 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). 7.8% of Manheim households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Manheim’s commuters take a bus or train.
Manheim is 2,147th of 4,771 U.S. towns of 2,100 to 4,100 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 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | East Williston NY | 2,616 | $215K | 2.3% | 1.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 10 | Lloyd Harbor NY | 3,587 | $250K | 2.1% | 0.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 46 | Great Neck Estates NY | 3,139 | $238K | 5.7% | 1.7% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,145 | Milton LA | 2,793 | $106K | 20.3% | 4.6% | 1% | B− |
| 2,146 | Lutcher LA | 2,822 | $60K | 14.1% | 2.2% | 10% | B− |
| 2,147 | Manheim NY | 3,026 | $70K | 8.6% | 1.9% | 14% | B− |
| 2,148 | French Camp CA | 3,264 | $91K | 23.2% | 4.2% | 1% | B− |
| 2,149 | Driggs ID | 2,403 | $95K | 11.6% | 2.1% | 24% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,771 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Manheim, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Next door is work for 12% of Manheim
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Manheim workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manheim | – | B− | B | 25 min | $69,527 |
| Oppenheim | 2% | C− | D | 28 min | $69,148 |
| St. Johnsville | under 3% | D | B+ | 22 min | $54,837 |
| Danube | under 3% | — | — | 28 min | — |
| Little Falls | 10% | D | B+ | 22 min | $53,544 |
| Dolgeville | under 3% | C | A− | 27 min | $67,740 |
| Salisbury | under 3% | C− | D− | 37 min | $81,528 |
| Fairfield | under 3% | C+ | B− | 25 min | $89,875 |
Same-state neighbors only. Danube: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Little Falls. Darker towns draw more of Manheim’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 Manheim: questions
What is the median household income in Manheim?
$69,527 (±$21,438) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Manheim?
8.6%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Manheim?
25 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Manheim work?
14% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Little Falls (10%, 3 mi), Herkimer (8%, 10 mi), Utica (7%, 22 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Manheim walkable?
Manheim is more walkable than 63% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 6.4 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Manheim without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Manheim, from the people who make the trip.
More of Manheim
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.