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Cherryvale, KS

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Overview


Cherryvale is a very small city located in the state of Kansas. With a population of 2,157 people and just one neighborhood, Cherryvale is the 161st largest community in Kansas. Much of the housing stock in Cherryvale was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic cities in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Cherryvale is a blue-collar town, with 38.86% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Cherryvale is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cherryvale who work in sales jobs (11.64%), healthcare suport services (9.55%), and office and administrative support (7.79%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Cherryvale is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The percentage of people in Cherryvale with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.70% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Cherryvale in 2018 was $23,008, which is low income relative to Kansas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $92,032 for a family of four. However, Cherryvale contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Cherryvale home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cherryvale residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Cherryvale include Irish, German, English, Italian, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Cherryvale is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

People

Divorcees may find friendship and understanding in this neighborhood, as 21.0% of its residents are divorced. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis found that this divorce rate is higher than in 96.7% 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 Cherryvale are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 85.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 27.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 78.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 38.6% 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 24.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.3%), and 17.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.8% of households.

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 Cherryvale, KS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (12.9%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (11.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.9%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (4.1%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.2%), 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 (50.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (88.4%) 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 (11.2%) . 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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