Manti Motor Company Building · Photo: Tricia Simpson · CC BY-SA 3.0Manti has 0.5 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Manti grades C for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. Employers in Manti report 718 jobs, against 1,406 working residents. Working from home is the commute for 5% of workers, next to 18% for Utah as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Manti, in a few figures
Manti and Ephraim trade workers both ways
Ephraim is the top workplace for Manti residents (17%) and also where the most people who work in Manti come from (17% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
A big share show a job far from home
37% 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 ↓
Manti has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Manti went from 519 in 2013 to 718 in 2023, +38%. 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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
The figures behind Manti’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Manti is better than 33% of U.S. towns, #102 of 119 in Utah. Unemployment holds Manti’s grade up (1.6%, U.S. 5.2%); job access by car pulls it down.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Manti could be anywhere from C− to B−.
17% of working residents work in Ephraim
Where Manti clocks in
17% of workers
9% of workers
4% 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.
Where in the region Manti works
About 37% 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 kinds of work in Manti
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Manti, 2013 → 2023: 519 → 718. 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 Manti’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The workday shuffle in and out of Manti
On a workday 1,207 residents head out to work, 199 work right here, and 519 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,100 people are in Manti on a workday afternoon, 18% 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.
About 22 minutes each way, about the UT average
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Manti workers work from home, vs 18% across Utah. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,471 commuters (the 5% who work from home are left out). Across Utah: 82% drive alone, 2% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Few in Manti walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Manti is more walkable than 73% of U.S. towns, #52 of 119 in Utah. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.0% across Utah, on an EPA index of 7.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,551 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). 5.5% of Manti households have no vehicle (Utah 4.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Manti’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Manti is 2,856th among 4,153 U.S. towns of 2,700 to 5,100
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 100 | Lake Point UT | 2,947 | $137K | 2.0% | 1.1% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 283 | Mountain Green UT | 3,976 | $150K | 0.9% | 1.7% | 5% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 410 | Wellsville UT | 4,303 | $104K | 3.1% | 1.0% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,854 | New Hampton IA | 3,420 | $63K | 17.3% | 2.8% | 39% | C |
| 2,855 | Bedford PA | 2,817 | $41K | 12.5% | 2.6% | 15% | C |
| 2,856 | Manti UT | 3,794 | $63K | 14.8% | 1.6% | 14% | C |
| 2,857 | Hunter NY | 2,994 | $67K | 19.6% | 1.0% | 23% | C |
| 2,858 | Schoharie NY | 3,086 | $64K | 12.2% | 3.1% | 19% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 4,153 | 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 Manti, the top three, the last and three more from Utah.
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 Manti: questions
What is the median household income in Manti?
$62,614 (±$13,044) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,166 across Utah and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Manti?
14.8%, against 8.5% across Utah and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Manti?
22 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Utah and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Manti work?
14% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Ephraim (17%, 7 mi), Gunnison (9%, 12 mi), Provo (4%, 68 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Manti walkable?
Manti is more walkable than 73% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 7.3 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Manti without a car?
2% 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 Manti, from the people who make the trip.
More of Manti
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.