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Glasco - Jamestown, KS

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Overview


Glasco - Jamestown is a very small town located in the state of Kansas. With a population of 1,385 people and just one neighborhood, Glasco - Jamestown is the 211th largest community in Kansas. Glasco - Jamestown has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Glasco - Jamestown, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 40.46% of Glasco - Jamestown’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Glasco - Jamestown is a town of managers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Glasco - Jamestown who work in management occupations (15.79%), office and administrative support (13.98%), and healthcare (6.09%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Demographics

The education level of Glasco - Jamestown citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 24.84% of adults in Glasco - Jamestown have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Glasco - Jamestown in 2018 was $36,110, which is upper middle income relative to Kansas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $144,440 for a family of four. However, Glasco - Jamestown contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Glasco - Jamestown is English. Other important languages spoken here include French and Spanish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 4 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 98.4% of all U.S. neighborhoods. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swedish and Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Swedish ancestry and 2.2% have Native American ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 3.3% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak French at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.7% 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 Glasco - Jamestown are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 65.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 6.4% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 60.4% of America'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, 39.3% 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 31.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.8%), and 10.4% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

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 93.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include French and Spanish.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Glasco - Jamestown, KS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (28.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (18.6%), and residents who report English roots (10.0%), and some of the residents are also of Swedish ancestry (5.9%), along with some French ancestry residents (5.8%), 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 (46.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (85.0%) 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 (8.6%) . 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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