Kismet is a tiny city located in the state of Kansas. With a population of 333 people and just one neighborhood, Kismet is the 271st largest community in Kansas.
Unlike some cities, Kismet isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Kismet are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Kismet is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Kismet who work in teaching (20.00%), office and administrative support (17.50%), and food service (10.00%).
Being a small city, Kismet does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of people in Kismet who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 27.04% of adults in Kismet have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Kismet in 2018 was $27,557, which is middle income relative to Kansas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $110,228 for a family of four. However, Kismet contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Kismet is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Kismet home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Kismet residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Kismet also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 36.56% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Kismet include German, Irish, English, Scots-Irish, and Swiss.
Foreign born people are also an important part of Kismet's cultural character, accounting for 22.58% of the city’s population.
The most common language spoken in Kismet is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Vietnamese.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Kismet, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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 98.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 96.9% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 7.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.4% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Kismet are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 60.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 24.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 73.5% 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, 39.7% 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 20.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.0%), and 14.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 51.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
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 Kismet, KS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (49.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (18.0%), and residents who report Dutch roots (5.4%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (4.5%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.6%), among others. In addition, 24.2% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 (42.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (76.3%) 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 (16.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.