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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 where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Towanda - Benton is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce 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 (10.90%), teaching (8.96%), and management occupations (8.54%).

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.

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 8.01% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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

Demographics

The overall education level of Towanda - Benton citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 33.65% of adults in Towanda - Benton have at least a bachelor's degree, and the average American community has 21.84%.

The per capita income in Towanda - Benton in 2018 was $41,573, which is wealthy relative to Kansas, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $166,292 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, Scottish, and French.

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 British and Czechoslovakian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.7% of this neighborhood's residents have British ancestry and 0.5% have Czechoslovakian ancestry.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this 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 61.8% of the neighborhoods in America. With 17.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 64.9% of U.S. neighborhoods.

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In the neighborhood, 41.9% 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 27.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.6%), and 13.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.6% of households.

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 Towanda - Benton, KS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (32.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (15.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.2%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (3.6%), along with some French ancestry residents (3.2%), 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 (38.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (87.4%) 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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