Baxter Springs is a very small city located in the state of Kansas. With a population of 3,834 people and just one neighborhood, Baxter Springs is the 89th largest community in Kansas. Baxter Springs has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities.
Unlike some cities, Baxter Springs isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Baxter Springs are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Baxter Springs is a city of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Baxter Springs who work in healthcare (12.19%), office and administrative support (11.91%), and sales jobs (6.83%).
Being a small city, Baxter Springs does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Baxter Springs who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 18.18% of the adults in Baxter Springs have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Baxter Springs in 2022 was $23,249, which is low income relative to Kansas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $92,996 for a family of four. However, Baxter Springs contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Baxter Springs is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Baxter Springs home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Baxter Springs residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Baxter Springs include German, English, Irish, Italian, and Russian.
The most common language spoken in Baxter Springs is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Russian and Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Russian ancestry and 2.9% have Native American ancestry.
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 Baxter Springs are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 75.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 7.4% 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 57.5% 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, 30.2% 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 29.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.4%), and 18.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.9% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.4%).
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Baxter Springs, KS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (16.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.6%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (6.1%), along with some Russian ancestry residents (5.4%), among others.
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 (45.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (88.9%) 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 (5.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.