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Lecompton, KS

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Overview


Lecompton is a tiny city located in the state of Kansas. With a population of 591 people and just one neighborhood, Lecompton is the 252nd largest community in Kansas. Lecompton has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities.

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.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Lecompton, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 47.22% of Lecompton’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Lecompton is a city of construction workers and builders, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lecompton who work in sales jobs (8.33%), office and administrative support (7.69%), and business and financial occupations (6.20%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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!) Lecompton 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. Lecompton has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Lecompton than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Lecompton may be for you.

One downside of living in Lecompton, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.29 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.

Demographics

The education level of Lecompton citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 17.10% of adults 25 and older in Lecompton have a college degree.

The per capita income in Lecompton in 2018 was $30,719, which is middle income relative to Kansas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $122,876 for a family of four. However, Lecompton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Lecompton is a very 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 Korean.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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The Neighbors

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 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 65.6% of the neighborhoods in America. With 10.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 51.2% 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, 40.3% 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 28.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.5%), and 12.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.5% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 (21.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.8%), and residents who report English roots (13.2%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (6.5%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (4.3%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (30.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (81.9%) 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 (7.2%) . 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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