Photo: Ntsimp · Public domainHousehold incomes in Mantua are higher than in 94% of U.S. towns
The poverty rate is 2.4%; Utah has 8.5%. Jobs and income earn Mantua A; getting around on foot earns it D. Hardly any work in Mantua; the top destination outside it is Ogden (18%, 20 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Mantua
Mantua is a place people come home to
There are 139 jobs based in Mantua, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Mantua has about 910 people in it, 34% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
A big share show a job far from home
30% 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 615 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Inside Mantua’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Mantua is better than 90% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Mantua’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 44% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (2.1%) is left out: Mantua’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A firm grade. At either end of the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Mantua stays A.
In and out of Mantua on a workday
On a workday 610 residents head out to work, 5 work right here, and 134 people come in from elsewhere.
About 910 people are in Mantua on a workday afternoon, 34% fewer than live here.
0.23 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute 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.
Miles to work from Mantua
About 30% 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 towns that employ Mantua’s residents
Where Mantua clocks in
18% of workers
13% of workers
9% 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 139 jobs based in Mantua
139 jobs are based in Mantua.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mantua, 2013 → 2023: 33 → 139. 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 Mantua’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Mantua, about 22 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mantua workers work from home, vs 18% across Utah. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 544 commuters (the 16% 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 Mantua walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Mantua is more walkable than 11% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.0% across Utah, on an EPA index of 3.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 650 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 41% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.7% of Mantua households have no vehicle (Utah 4.1%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Mantua’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Mantua is 297th of 5,877 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 143 | Emigration Canyon UT | 1,417 | $191K | 2.7% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 288 | Lake Shore UT | 1,129 | $99K | 0.0% | 20.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 295 | Belgrade Township MN | 1,002 | $135K | 1.8% | 1.3% | 1% | A |
| 296 | Point Venture TX | 1,233 | $111K | 4.7% | 4.5% | 3% | A |
| 297 | Mantua UT | 1,389 | $142K | 2.4% | 2.1% | 1% | A |
| 298 | Pleasant Township OH | 1,719 | $124K | 1.3% | 2.2% | 0% | A |
| 299 | Walworth WI | 1,551 | $94K | 5.0% | 0.9% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 304 | West Mountain UT | 1,282 | $112K | 1.2% | 2.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | 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 Mantua, 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 Mantua: questions
What is the median household income in Mantua?
$142,188 (±$10,800) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,166 across Utah and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mantua?
2.4%, against 8.5% across Utah and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mantua?
22 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Utah and 26 nationally. 16% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mantua work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Ogden (18%, 20 mi), Brigham City (13%, 6 mi), Salt Lake City (9%, 51 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Mantua walkable?
Mantua is more walkable than 11% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 3.7 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Mantua without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mantua, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mantua
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.