About Rush Center

Rush Center is a tiny town located in the state of Kansas. With a population of 505 people and just one neighborhood, Rush Center is the 219th largest community in Kansas. Rush Center has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.

Rush Center is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Rush Center is a town of managers, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Rush Center who work in farm management (18.18%), office and administrative support jobs (16.88%), and food service (5.63%).

In addition, many people in Rush Center have jobs in agriculture, more so than in most other communities in America. As a result, you will see quite a number of farms around town.

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their homes - 13.54% 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.

A very large number of seniors call Rush Center home: people 65 and over are 29.90% of the population. Because of the prominence of the retirement community, this is good place for the over-65 crowd to settle, as many of the town's services and social community are geared to this demographic.

Rush Center is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Rush Center isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 96.97% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

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

Rush Center Information and Demographics

The percentage of adults in Rush Center with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 14.96% for all communities. 11.99% of adults in Rush Center have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Rush Center in 2000 was $24,118, which is wealthy relative to Kansas, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $96,472 for a family of four.

The people who call Rush Center home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Rush Center is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Rush Center include German, Czech, English, and Irish.

The most common language spoken in Rush Center is English. Other important languages spoken here include German and Other Slavic languages.