Lecompton is a tiny city located in the state of Kansas. With a population of 595 people and just one neighborhood, Lecompton is the 252nd largest community in Kansas.
Lecompton real estate is some of the most expensive in Kansas, although Lecompton house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Lecompton is a blue-collar town, with 48.67% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Lecompton is a city of construction workers and builders, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lecompton who work in sales jobs (8.44%), business and financial occupations (6.67%), and office and administrative support (6.22%).
The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Lecompton has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Lecompton a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Lecompton, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.61 minutes every day commuting to work.
As is often the case in a small city, Lecompton doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The citizens of Lecompton are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.11% of adults in Lecompton have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Lecompton in 2022 was $34,989, which is upper middle income relative to Kansas, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $139,956 for a family of four. However, Lecompton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Lecompton is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Lecompton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lecompton residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Lecompton include German, Irish, English, French, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Lecompton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and African 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 Lecompton, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Lecompton is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in KS, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 87.1% of the neighborhoods in Kansas. If you are considering retiring to Kansas, this is a good neighborhood to look at.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more French Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.7% of this neighborhood's residents have French Canadian 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 Lecompton are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 71.8% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 6.5% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 59.6% of America'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, 42.6% 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 28.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.1%), and 12.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.2% of households.
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Lecompton, KS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (23.4%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (15.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (13.6%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (5.1%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (4.4%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.7% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (82.4%) 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 (6.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.