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Erie - St. Paul, KS

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Overview


Erie - St. Paul is a very small town located in the state of Kansas. With a population of 3,590 people and just one neighborhood, Erie - St. Paul is the 99th largest community in Kansas.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Erie - St. Paul is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Erie - St. Paul is a town of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Erie - St. Paul who work in management occupations (15.09%), office and administrative support (9.03%), and healthcare (7.21%).

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 13.81% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

As is often the case in a small town, Erie - St. Paul doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The citizens of Erie - St. Paul are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 23.96% of adults in Erie - St. Paul having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Erie - St. Paul in 2022 was $28,237, which is lower middle income relative to Kansas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $112,948 for a family of four. However, Erie - St. Paul contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Erie - St. Paul is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Erie - St. Paul home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Erie - St. Paul residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Erie - St. Paul include German, English, Irish, Dutch, and French.

The most common language spoken in Erie - St. Paul is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 15 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.8% of America.

People

There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (0.9%) living in the neighborhood.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Erie - St. Paul are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 66.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 14.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 59.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 39.1% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 30.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.9%), and 11.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.3% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.8%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Erie - St. Paul, KS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (31.7%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (11.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.4%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (5.0%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (3.2%), among others.

Getting to Work

How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (36.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (68.8%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (16.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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