La Cygne is a very small city located in the state of Kansas. With a population of 1,035 people and just one neighborhood, La Cygne is the 225th largest community in Kansas.
La Cygne is a blue-collar town, with 46.98% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, La Cygne is a city of construction workers and builders, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in La Cygne who work in office and administrative support (10.02%), healthcare suport services (8.29%), and healthcare (6.22%).
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!) La Cygne 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. La Cygne has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in La Cygne than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, La Cygne may be for you.
In La Cygne, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 34.72 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
La Cygne is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
In La Cygne, just 6.76% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in La Cygne in 2022 was $25,488, which is low income relative to Kansas, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $101,952 for a family of four. However, La Cygne contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call La Cygne home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of La Cygne residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in La Cygne include Irish, German, French, English, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in La Cygne is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 42 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 90.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Irish and Belgian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 22.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Irish ancestry and 0.6% have Belgian ancestry.
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 La Cygne are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 69.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 18.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 66.0% 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, 33.2% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 28.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (19.6%), and 18.4% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.4% of households.
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in La Cygne, KS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (22.7%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (17.6%), and residents who report English roots (11.6%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (5.5%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.5%), among others.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (33.8% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (78.2%) 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 (12.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.