About Garden Plain

Garden Plain is a very small town located in the state of Kansas. With a population of 1,796 people and just one neighborhood, Garden Plain is the 149th largest community in Kansas.

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Garden Plain is neither predominently one or the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Garden Plain is a town of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Garden Plain who work in office and administrative support jobs (20.77%), sales jobs (11.80%), and management occupations (8.74%).

Because of many things, Garden Plain is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Garden Plain really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Garden Plain perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic night life, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

Garden Plain is a small town, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Garden Plain, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 99.26% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.

As is often the case in a small town, Garden Plain doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Garden Plain Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, Garden Plain is somewhat better educated than the 14.96% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 19.40% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Garden Plain in 2000 was $21,558, which is wealthy relative to Kansas, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $86,232 for a family of four.

The people who call Garden Plain home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Garden Plain is White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Garden Plain include German, English, and Irish.

The most common language spoken in Garden Plain is English.