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Mount Hope - Bentley, KS

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Overview


Mount Hope - Bentley is a very small town located in the state of Kansas. With a population of 2,217 people and just one neighborhood, Mount Hope - Bentley is the 160th largest community in Kansas. Much of the housing stock in Mount Hope - Bentley was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Mount Hope - Bentley isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Mount Hope - Bentley are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Mount Hope - Bentley is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Mount Hope - Bentley who work in office and administrative support (17.28%), maintenance occupations (14.16%), and management occupations (10.33%).

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 11.54% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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

Mount Hope - Bentley is a good choice for families with children because of several factors. Many other families with children live here, making it a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic success. Many people own their own single-family homes, providing areas for children to play and stability in the community. Finally, Mount Hope - Bentley’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

Mount Hope - Bentley is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The population of Mount Hope - Bentley overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Mount Hope - Bentley, 22.26% have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Mount Hope - Bentley in 2018 was $33,295, 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 $133,180 for a family of four. However, Mount Hope - Bentley contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Mount Hope - Bentley is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Mount Hope - Bentley home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mount Hope - Bentley residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Mount Hope - Bentley also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 14.42% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Mount Hope - Bentley include German, English, Irish, Italian, and European.

The most common language spoken in Mount Hope - Bentley is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Vietnamese.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Occupations

The neighborhood stands out nationally for having a greater proportion of its residents active in the military than 96.0% of other U.S. neighborhoods. If you come here, you will notice military people active in their jobs, going to and from work, and in plain clothes out and about the neighborhood.

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 31 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 92.6% of America.

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 Mount Hope - Bentley are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 60.9% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 4.2% 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 67.2% 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, 30.9% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 28.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (20.7%), and 20.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 87.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (10.8%).

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 Mount Hope - Bentley, KS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (27.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (17.2%), and residents who report Mexican roots (13.4%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (8.0%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (3.5%), 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 (41.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (72.7%) 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 (15.3%) . 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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