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Oskaloosa - McLouth, KS

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Overview


Oskaloosa - McLouth is a somewhat small town located in the state of Kansas. With a population of 5,610 people and just one neighborhood, Oskaloosa - McLouth is the 62nd largest community in Kansas.

Oskaloosa - McLouth real estate is some of the most expensive in Kansas, although Oskaloosa - McLouth house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Oskaloosa - McLouth is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 36.65% of the Oskaloosa - McLouth workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Oskaloosa - McLouth is a town of professionals, construction workers and builders, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Oskaloosa - McLouth who work in management occupations (11.15%), healthcare (9.72%), and teaching (8.97%).

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

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 9.45% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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

One downside of living in Oskaloosa - McLouth is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Oskaloosa - McLouth, the average commute to work is 32.64 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

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

Demographics

The percentage of people in Oskaloosa - McLouth who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 26.54% of adults in Oskaloosa - McLouth have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Oskaloosa - McLouth in 2018 was $44,543, which is wealthy relative to Kansas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $178,172 for a family of four. However, Oskaloosa - McLouth contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

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Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 91.8% of the neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Croatian and Belgian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Croatian ancestry and 1.0% have Belgian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.2% 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 96.0% 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 Oskaloosa - McLouth are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 65.2% of the neighborhoods in America. With 11.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 53.6% 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, 40.7% 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 36.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (13.9%), and 8.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.1% of households. Some people also speak Polish (2.8%).

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 Oskaloosa - McLouth, KS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (27.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (15.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.9%), and some of the residents are also of Swedish ancestry (5.1%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.6%), among others.

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 between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (30.0% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (76.9%) 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 (11.6%) . 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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