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Syracuse, KS

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Overview


Syracuse is a very small city located in the state of Kansas. With a population of 1,761 people and just one neighborhood, Syracuse is the 184th largest community in Kansas.

Occupations and Workforce

Syracuse is a blue-collar town, with 38.49% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Syracuse is a city of construction workers and builders, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Syracuse who work in office and administrative support (14.37%), management occupations (13.60%), and teaching (9.74%).

Another important characteristic of Syracuse is that a lot of people work in agricultural jobs, especially compared to most other communities in America, and there are quite a number of farms in town.

A relatively large number of people in Syracuse telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 8.20% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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

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

Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Syracuse spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 17.42 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the city are less than they would otherwise be.

Syracuse 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.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Syracuse with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 15.30% of adults in Syracuse have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Syracuse in 2018 was $25,078, 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 $100,312 for a family of four. However, Syracuse contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Syracuse is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Syracuse home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Syracuse residents report their race to be White. Syracuse also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 34.61% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Syracuse include German, English, Polish, Irish, and Scots-Irish.

In addition, Syracuse has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (15.42%).

The most common language spoken in Syracuse is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Occupations

It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 13.9% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 99.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 3 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 98.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Car Ownership

We Americans love our cars. Not only are they a necessity for most Americans due to the shape of our neighborhoods and the distances between where we live, work, shop, and go to school, but we also fancy them. As a result, most households in America have one, two, or three cars. But NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis shows that the neighborhood has a highly unusual pattern of car ownership. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 42.7% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 98.8% of the neighborhoods in the nation.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swedish and Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 7.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Swedish ancestry and 3.1% have Scots-Irish ancestry.

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 Syracuse are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 67.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 10.1% 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 50.5% 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, 25.4% 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 24.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.2%), and 15.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 69.0% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (30.4%).

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 Syracuse, KS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (25.7%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (25.4%), and residents who report English roots (11.7%), and some of the residents are also of Swedish ancestry (7.2%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (3.1%), among others. In addition, 17.6% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

Getting to Work

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 (55.0% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (68.0%) 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 (16.5%) and 9.7% 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.


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