Edwardsville is a very small city located in the state of Kansas. With a population of 4,641 people and just one neighborhood, Edwardsville is the 72nd largest community in Kansas.
Edwardsville is a blue-collar town, with 35.02% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Edwardsville is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Edwardsville who work in office and administrative support (12.53%), food service (6.48%), and sales jobs (6.44%).
Also of interest is that Edwardsville has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Residents will find that the city is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Edwardsville is worth considering.
As is often the case in a small city, Edwardsville doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The population of Edwardsville overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Edwardsville, 22.15% have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Edwardsville in 2022 was $31,082, which is lower middle income relative to Kansas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $124,328 for a family of four. However, Edwardsville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Edwardsville is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Edwardsville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Edwardsville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Edwardsville also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 18.89% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Edwardsville include Irish, German, English, Dutch, and French.
The most common language spoken in Edwardsville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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.
Our research reveals that 90.1% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 97.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Armenian and Croatian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Armenian ancestry and 0.8% have Croatian 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 Edwardsville are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 51.9% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 6.1% 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 60.6% of America's neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 33.6% 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 24.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.0%), and 17.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 90.7% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (7.8%).
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 Edwardsville, KS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (18.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (15.8%), and residents who report Mexican roots (15.8%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (8.2%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (3.7%), 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 (45.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (90.1%) 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.