Mansfield Armory · Photo: Pubdog · Public domainHousehold incomes in Mansfield trail those of 90% of U.S. towns
Home is the office for 8% of workers, next to 16% for Pennsylvania as a whole. Poverty touches 25.1% of residents; Pennsylvania has 11.7%. Mansfield grades D for jobs and income and A+ for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Mansfield apart on work
Mansfield is where the jobs are
Mansfield has 1,587 jobs, 1.6 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Mansfield are quick
The average trip to work takes 13 minutes, against 26 across Pennsylvania. That’s about 100 hours a year less on the road than the typical Pennsylvania worker. Time on the road ↓
A big share show a job far from home
38% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
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 998 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Mansfield’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Mansfield is better than 7% of U.S. towns, #1,024 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. Unemployment holds Mansfield’s grade up (6.1%, U.S. 5.2%); the poverty rate pulls it down.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Mansfield could be anywhere from D− to C−.
How a workday changes Mansfield
On a workday 831 residents head out to work, 167 work right here, and 1,420 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,500 people are in Mansfield on a workday afternoon, 20% more than live here.
1.6 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Each way, about 13 minutes from Mansfield
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mansfield workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,369 commuters (the 8% who work from home are left out). Across Pennsylvania: 81% drive alone, 4% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Half of Mansfield commutes less than 24 miles
About 38% 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.
Where Mansfield’s workers come from
Where Mansfield clocks in
8% of workers
7% 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.
The 1,587 jobs based in Mansfield
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mansfield, 2013 → 2023: 1,777 → 1,587. 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 Mansfield’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Mansfield is more walkable than most U.S. towns, with limited transit
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Mansfield is more walkable than 96% of U.S. towns, #80 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. Both inputs place Mansfield 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 1,480 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). 8.0% of Mansfield households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Mansfield’s commuters take a bus or train.
Mansfield and other U.S. towns of 2,100 to 4,000
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 19 | Wallace Township PA | 3,759 | $183K | 1.9% | 0.0% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 34 | Newtown PA | 2,257 | $166K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 68 | Churchill PA | 3,014 | $107K | 1.9% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,264 | Stanton KY | 3,153 | $25K | 26.0% | 7.1% | 20% | D |
| 4,265 | Delhi LA | 2,519 | $52K | 25.1% | 8.2% | 33% | D |
| 4,266 | Mansfield PA | 2,937 | $48K | 25.1% | 6.1% | 17% | D |
| 4,267 | Sisseton SD | 2,413 | $49K | 18.7% | 6.1% | 51% | D |
| 4,268 | Burlington KS | 2,640 | $51K | 16.8% | 6.9% | 34% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,618 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 12% | 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 Mansfield, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
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 Mansfield: questions
What is the median household income in Mansfield?
$47,685 (±$10,421) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mansfield?
25.1%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mansfield?
13 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mansfield work?
17% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Richmond Township (8%, 1 mi), Wellsboro (7%, 12 mi), New York City (5%, 181 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Mansfield walkable?
Mansfield is more walkable than 96% of U.S. towns (Walkability A+): an EPA walkability index of 11.1 out of 20, and 20% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Mansfield without a car?
<1% 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 Mansfield, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mansfield
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.