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Carbondale - Overbrook, KS

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Overview


Carbondale - Overbrook is a very small town located in the state of Kansas. With a population of 4,180 people and just one neighborhood, Carbondale - Overbrook is the 80th largest community in Kansas.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Carbondale - Overbrook is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Carbondale - Overbrook is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Carbondale - Overbrook who work in office and administrative support (10.65%), sales jobs (8.63%), and management occupations (7.04%).

Also of interest is that Carbondale - Overbrook has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

Being a small town, Carbondale - Overbrook does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The education level of Carbondale - Overbrook citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 19.37% of adults 25 and older in Carbondale - Overbrook have a college degree.

The per capita income in Carbondale - Overbrook in 2018 was $35,236, which is upper middle income relative to Kansas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $140,944 for a family of four. However, Carbondale - Overbrook contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Carbondale - Overbrook home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Carbondale - Overbrook residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Carbondale - Overbrook include German, Irish, English, European, and Australian.

The most common language spoken in Carbondale - Overbrook is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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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 44 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 90.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Significantly, 0.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Mon-Khmer, which is the dominant language of Cambodia, at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.1% of the neighborhoods in 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 Carbondale - Overbrook are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 49.9% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 9.7% 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 51.4% 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, 34.1% 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 32.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.0%), and 12.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Carbondale - Overbrook, KS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (27.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (21.3%), and residents who report English roots (10.6%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (7.4%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (1.9%), 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 (41.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (80.8%) 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 (11.5%) . 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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