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Towanda - Benton, KS

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Overview


Towanda - Benton is a very small town located in the state of Kansas. With a population of 4,445 people and just one neighborhood, Towanda - Benton is the 76th largest community in Kansas.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Towanda - Benton isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Towanda - Benton are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Towanda - Benton is a town of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Towanda - Benton who work in office and administrative support (10.34%), teaching (10.14%), and management occupations (9.54%).

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

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Towanda - Benton is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Towanda - Benton really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Towanda - Benton perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

Demographics

In terms of college education, Towanda - Benton is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 32.91% of adults in Towanda - Benton have a college degree.

The per capita income in Towanda - Benton in 2018 was $38,055, which is wealthy relative to Kansas, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $152,220 for a family of four. However, Towanda - Benton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Towanda - Benton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Chinese 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.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish and British ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry and 2.3% have British ancestry.

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 Towanda - Benton are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 67.8% of the neighborhoods in America. With 26.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 76.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 45.0% 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 26.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (14.6%), and 12.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.0% 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 Towanda - Benton, KS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (30.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (13.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.7%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (4.9%), along with some British ancestry residents (2.3%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (40.3% 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 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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