Wilson School · Photo: Generic1139 · CC BY-SA 3.0Household incomes in Mannington trail those of 82% of U.S. towns
Jobs and income earn Mannington C−; getting around on foot earns it B+. 10.5% of residents are in poverty, against 16.7% across West Virginia. About one in ten work in Mannington itself; outside it, Fairmont draws the most (18%, 11 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Mannington, in a few figures
The better-paid jobs are outside Mannington
58% of Mannington residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 39% of the jobs based in Mannington pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 92% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Stores, warehouses and trucking
42% of the jobs in Mannington are in trade, transport and utilities, against 20% of the jobs its residents hold. 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 772 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Why Mannington gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty and job access, Mannington is better than 24% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Mannington’s grade up; household income pulls it down ($54,286, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (3.2%) is left out: Mannington’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, Mannington could be anywhere from D to B−.
What Mannington’s employers do
487 jobs are based in Mannington.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mannington, 2013 → 2023: 430 → 487. 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 Mannington’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many people are in Mannington by day
On a workday 707 residents head out to work, 65 work right here, and 422 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,600 people are in Mannington on a workday afternoon, 15% fewer than live here.
0.63 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.
Where Mannington’s working residents head each day
Where Mannington clocks in
18% of workers
7% 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.
Getting to work from Mannington takes about 30 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mannington workers work from home, vs 9% across West Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 694 commuters (the 4% who work from home are left out). Across West Virginia: 86% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Mannington’s commute, mile by mile
About 15% 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.
For most of Mannington, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Mannington is more walkable than 74% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 9.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.5% across West Virginia, on an EPA index of 6.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 723 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). 7.0% of Mannington households have no vehicle (West Virginia 8.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Mannington’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 5,921 U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,600, Mannington comes 3,976th 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 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,420 | Coal Fork WV | 1,423 | $70K | 2.3% | 29.5% | <1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,444 | Bethlehem WV | 2,520 | $83K | 8.8% | 3.0% | 2% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,534 | Eleanor WV | 1,497 | $79K | 5.9% | 0.6% | 3% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,974 | Wrightsville AR | 1,630 | $45K | 16.4% | 1.5% | <1% | C− |
| 3,975 | Venice IL | 1,450 | $32K | 43.3% | 26.0% | 6% | C− |
| 3,976 | Mannington WV | 1,910 | $54K | 10.5% | 3.2% | 8% | C− |
| 3,977 | Kearney Township MI | 1,866 | $72K | 10.5% | 2.6% | 20% | C− |
| 3,978 | Dansville NY | 1,816 | $69K | 11.4% | 3.5% | 4% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,921 | 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 Mannington, the top three, the last and three more from West Virginia.
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 Mannington: questions
What is the median household income in Mannington?
$54,286 (±$11,555) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $59,608 across West Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mannington?
10.5%, against 16.7% across West Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mannington?
30 minutes each way on average, against 27 across West Virginia and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mannington work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fairmont (18%, 11 mi), Morgantown (7%, 22 mi), Bridgeport (7%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Mannington walkable?
Mannington is more walkable than 74% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 6.7 out of 20, and 9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Mannington without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mannington, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mannington
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.