Manhattan is a larger medium-sized city located in the state of Kansas. With a population of 53,829 people and 14 associated neighborhoods, Manhattan is the ninth largest community in Kansas. Manhattan real estate is some of the most expensive in Kansas, although Manhattan house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.When you are in Manhattan, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 0.00% of Manhattan’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Manhattan is a city of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Manhattan who work in office and administrative support (0.00%), sales jobs (0.00%), and personal care services (0.00%). It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Manhattan has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Manhattan has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Manhattan than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Manhattan may be for you. Residents of the city have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 0.00 minutes getting to work every day. Even though Manhattan is not a small city, it doesn't have a public transportation system that anybody uses for their daily commute to work.The population of Manhattan has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 0.00% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.Manhattan is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Manhattan home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Manhattan residents report their race to be Native Hawaiian. Important ancestries of people in Manhattan include Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, West Indian, U.S. Virgin Islander, and Trinidadian and Tobagonian. The most common language spoken in Manhattan is German/Yiddish. Other important languages spoken here include Langs. of India and African languages.