Manhattan, KS
Metropolitan statistical area, CBSA 31740 · 39.27, -96.56
5 findings fired for Manhattan, KS this run, against a typical home value of $268,008 in September 2026 and covered employment of 51,958 in 2026 Q1.
- 20th pct · 313th of 393 US metro areas · median 105,500
Total employment in the BLS OEWS occupational tables for this metro area. It is an occupational survey total, not the QCEW payroll count below.
An estimate: the sum of the member counties BLS publishes, not BLS's own metro row, whose boundaries follow each year's delineation. The arithmetic is printed below.
- 36th pct · 242nd of 379 US metro areas · median $305,707
Zillow Home Value Index, metro file, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- 20th pct · 304th of 382 US metro areas · median $1,504
Zillow Observed Rent Index, metro file.
- 57th pct · 160th of 379 US metro areas · median 16.9
typical home value / (typical rent × 12); Zillow ZHVI over ZORI, same month.
- 66th pct · 126th of 379 US metro areas · median 2.0%
Zillow's own twelve-month change on the metro row.
A percentile here is a min-max scaling of average rank: the smallest published value in the cohort is 0 and the largest is 100, and tied values share the average of the ranks they span. It is not the share of entities below the value, so 0 means smallest, not none below. Entities that did not publish the metric are outside the cohort entirely and are counted in neither the rank nor its denominator.
Occupation mix #
The 30 largest detailed occupations and all 22 SOC major groups in Manhattan, KS, from the bundled BLS OEWS release.
| SOC | Occupation | Jobs | Mean annual wage | Location quotient |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35-3023 | Fast Food and Counter Workers | 2,190 | $26,610 | 1.65 |
| 41-2011 | Cashiers | 1,620 | $27,360 | 1.52 |
| 41-2031 | Retail Salespersons | 1,390 | $34,380 | 1.04 |
| 43-6014 | Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive | 1,230 | $40,390 | 2.10 |
| 25-9045 | Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary | 1,100 | $31,170 | 2.24 |
| 53-7065 | Stockers and Order Fillers | 1,020 | $33,960 | 1.05 |
| 35-3031 | Waiters and Waitresses | 940 | $37,460 | 1.20 |
| 53-7062 | Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand | 930 | $36,200 | 0.91 |
| 11-1021 | General and Operations Managers | 920 | $103,740 | 0.76 |
| 43-4051 | Customer Service Representatives | 870 | $39,940 | 0.97 |
| 31-1131 | Nursing Assistants | 840 | $38,830 | 1.68 |
| 29-1141 | Registered Nurses | 810 | $79,100 | 0.69 |
| 37-2011 | Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners | 720 | $32,400 | 0.94 |
| 13-1199 | Business Operations Specialists, All Other | 690 | $78,480 | 1.84 |
| 31-1120 | Home Health and Personal Care Aides | 580 | $30,510 | 0.39 |
| 25-2021 | Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education | 570 | $52,770 | 1.18 |
| 49-9071 | Maintenance and Repair Workers, General | 570 | $47,380 | 1.08 |
| 43-3031 | Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks | 560 | $45,460 | 1.19 |
| 35-2014 | Cooks, Restaurant | 520 | $33,040 | 1.06 |
| 35-1012 | First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers | 510 | $41,580 | 1.21 |
| 13-1071 | Human Resources Specialists | 500 | $79,810 | 1.59 |
| 53-3032 | Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers | 480 | $53,080 | 0.68 |
| 13-2011 | Accountants and Auditors | 470 | $75,410 | 0.94 |
| 25-3031 | Substitute Teachers, Short-Term | 470 | $36,080 | 2.62 |
| 37-3011 | Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers | 440 | $38,120 | 1.34 |
| 41-1011 | First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers | 420 | $47,740 | 1.08 |
| 47-2061 | Construction Laborers | 420 | $48,080 | 1.11 |
| 43-4171 | Receptionists and Information Clerks | 390 | $33,360 | 1.24 |
| 47-1011 | First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers | 380 | $79,110 | 1.35 |
| 41-3091 | Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel | 370 | $71,110 | 0.85 |
| SOC | Occupation | Jobs | Mean annual wage | Location quotient |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43-0000 | Office and Administrative Support Occupations | 5,700 | $44,040 | 0.93 |
| 35-0000 | Food Preparation and Serving Related Occupations | 5,660 | $31,220 | 1.20 |
| 25-0000 | Educational Instruction and Library Occupations | 5,610 | $62,710 | 1.79 |
| 41-0000 | Sales and Related Occupations | 4,690 | $41,930 | 1.01 |
| 13-0000 | Business and Financial Operations Occupations | 3,820 | $78,670 | 1.05 |
| 53-0000 | Transportation and Material Moving Occupations | 3,790 | $40,500 | 0.81 |
| 11-0000 | Management Occupations | 2,970 | $116,020 | 0.78 |
| 29-0000 | Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations | 2,910 | $86,630 | 0.86 |
| 51-0000 | Production Occupations | 2,720 | $48,620 | 0.92 |
| 47-0000 | Construction and Extraction Occupations | 2,440 | $59,410 | 1.10 |
| 31-0000 | Healthcare Support Occupations | 2,160 | $37,560 | 0.79 |
| 49-0000 | Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations | 2,150 | $59,120 | 1.03 |
| 37-0000 | Building and Grounds Cleaning and Maintenance Occupations | 1,660 | $35,650 | 1.06 |
| 39-0000 | Personal Care and Service Occupations | 1,300 | $33,730 | 1.16 |
| 15-0000 | Computer and Mathematical Occupations | 1,160 | $89,980 | 0.64 |
| 33-0000 | Protective Service Occupations | 1,090 | $56,540 | 0.84 |
| 21-0000 | Community and Social Service Occupations | 1,030 | $52,150 | 1.12 |
| 17-0000 | Architecture and Engineering Occupations | 930 | $83,040 | 1.03 |
| 19-0000 | Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations | 760 | $75,290 | 1.49 |
| 27-0000 | Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations | 560 | $61,730 | 0.79 |
| 23-0000 | Legal Occupations | 230 | $96,800 | 0.51 |
| 45-0000 | Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Occupations | 190 | $40,710 | 1.25 |
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, metropolitan area tables, committed to this repository rather than fetched. A location quotient above 1 means the occupation is more concentrated here than in the United States as a whole; wages are means, not medians, and BLS suppresses a wage where its sample is too thin.
Housing #
The typical home in the Manhattan, KS metro was worth $268,008 in September 2026.
25 months to September 2026. Rent: $1,262 in September 2026.
Zillow Home Value Index and Observed Rent Index, metro files, joined by the RegionID recorded in the place manifest. Both are smoothed indices of the middle third of the market, not sale prices.
Employment, rolled up from member counties #
About 51,958 covered jobs across the 3 member counties BLS published.
- jobs = sum of QCEW third-month employment across the 3 of 3 member counties BLS publishes.
- 51,958 = 12,548 + 10,147 + 29,263
| County | FIPS |
|---|---|
| Geary County, KS | 20061 |
| Pottawatomie County, KS | 20149 |
| Riley County, KS | 20161 |
The place manifest names 3 member counties for this metro, fewer than the 5 a cohort needs before a percentile means anything, so no within-metro position is offered for its counties. The positions above are against the other 392 metropolitan areas, which is a cohort that does not depend on the county pull.
There are no QCEW metro employment totals here, and that is a property of the data rather than an omission: BLS does publish MSA area codes (C####), but lib/economy's QCEW reader handles only county (SSCCC), state (SS000) and national (US000) rows at aggregation levels 74, 54 and 14, and the /api/economy route regex rejects anything else. So this figure is a sum of member counties, labelled an estimate, with every county it could not count named.
National indicator context #
None of these series is keyed to this metro area. They are national, gauge, single-state or port series, shown as context for the numbers above.
| Indicator | Latest | Unit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi River at Memphis, stage | not published | ft | no data |
| Mississippi River at St. Louis, stage | not published | ft | no data |
| Ohio River at Louisville, stage | 17.95 | ft | ok |
| Missouri River at St. Joseph, stage | not published | ft | no data |
| Colorado River below Hoover Dam, flow (Hoover releases) | 5,170.00 | ft³/s | ok |
| Texas reservoirs, statewide percent full | 72.20 | % | ok |
| Laredo truck crossings, monthly | 258,700.00 | trucks | ok |
| Los Angeles + Long Beach container volume, annual | 10,513,167.00 | TEU | watch |
| Containerships waiting for a berth, all US ports | 7.00 | ships | ok |
| Shanghai to Los Angeles container rate | 7,848.00 | $ per 40 ft box | watch |
| US diesel retail price | not published | $ per gallon | no data |
| WTI crude oil, spot | 101.91 | $ per barrel | watch |
| 30-year fixed mortgage rate | 7.40 | % | watch |
| Housing starts, annual rate | 1,275.00 | thousands of units | ok |
| Building permits, annual rate | 1,403.00 | thousands of units | ok |
| Case-Shiller US home price index | 337.31 | index, Jan 2000 = 100 | ok |
| Unemployment rate | 4.20 | % | ok |
| US goods and services trade balance, monthly | -105,572.00 | $ millions | ok |
| Retail sales excluding food services, monthly | 652,115.00 | $ millions | ok |
lib/indicators has no geographic selection: every registry entry is a United States, gauge, Texas, port, crossing or world series, and no entry is metro-keyed. Reading these as this metro's own readings would be wrong.
What changed #
Manhattan, KS: 5 findings, 5 noted
noteManhattan, KS' typical asking rent rose 0.5% from $1,256 in August 2026 to $1,262 in September 2026, on Zillow ZORI.
Period 2026-09.Show the arithmetic
- +0.5% = (1261.6864699627856 - 1255.8554406245169) / 1255.8554406245169 × 100
- 1261.6864699627856 = Zillow ZORI, 2026-09
- 1255.8554406245169 = Zillow ZORI, 2026-08
noteManhattan, KS' typical home value rose 0.3% from $267,313 in August 2026 to $268,008 in September 2026, on Zillow ZHVI.
Period 2026-09.Show the arithmetic
- +0.3% = (268007.5099911962 - 267312.77914402366) / 267312.77914402366 × 100
- 268007.5099911962 = Zillow ZHVI, 2026-09
- 267312.77914402366 = Zillow ZHVI, 2026-08
noteThe next Unemployment rate (BLS Employment Situation, monthly) covering Manhattan, KS is due between 2026-10-30 and 2026-11-13, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern.
Show the arithmetic
- window = 2026-10-30 to 2026-11-13, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern
estimated from the publisher's past release pattern; not an announced date
noteThe next Zillow ZHVI typical home value (monthly) covering Manhattan, KS is due between 2026-11-14 and 2026-11-21, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern.
Show the arithmetic
- window = 2026-11-14 to 2026-11-21, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern
estimated from the publisher's past release pattern; not an announced date
noteThe next Zillow ZORI typical rent (monthly) covering Manhattan, KS is due between 2026-11-14 and 2026-11-21, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern.
Show the arithmetic
- window = 2026-11-14 to 2026-11-21, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern
estimated from the publisher's past release pattern; not an announced date
The full Manhattan, KS brief, with the arithmetic behind every sentence.
Metro briefs are thinner by construction: with no QCEW metro path, their findings come from Zillow's metro home value and rent rows, the county rollup, and nearby crossings and ports.