Kinsley is a very small city located in the state of Kansas. With a population of 1,370 people and just one neighborhood, Kinsley is the 207th largest community in Kansas.
Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Kinsley is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Kinsley is a city of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Kinsley who work in management occupations (11.96%), office and administrative support (10.47%), and teaching (7.81%).
Also of interest is that Kinsley has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Being a small city, Kinsley does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Kinsley are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.94% of adults in Kinsley have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Kinsley in 2022 was $27,208, which is lower middle income relative to Kansas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $108,832 for a family of four. However, Kinsley contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Kinsley is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Kinsley home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Kinsley residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Kinsley also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 27.57% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Kinsley include German, English, Irish, Scottish, and European.
The most common language spoken in Kinsley is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Slavic languages.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Kinsley, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Kinsley are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 82.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 10.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 51.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 32.8% 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 30.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.8%), and 16.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 75.6% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (23.4%).
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 Kinsley, KS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (26.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (20.5%), and residents who report English roots (7.4%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (5.3%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.2%), among others. In addition, 10.7% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 (56.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (79.0%) 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 (10.7%) and 5.7% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.