Galena is a very small city located in the state of Kansas. With a population of 2,752 people and just one neighborhood, Galena is the 127th largest community in Kansas. Galena has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities in the country.
Galena is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Galena is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Galena who work in office and administrative support (29.07%), maintenance occupations (11.22%), and food service (10.13%).
The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Galena has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Galena a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small city, Galena does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Galena is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 19.14% of adults 25 and older in Galena have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Galena in 2022 was $25,176, which is low income relative to Kansas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $100,704 for a family of four. However, Galena contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Galena is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Galena home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Galena residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Galena include Irish, German, English, Scottish, and Kenyan.
The most common language spoken in Galena is English. Other important languages spoken here include Chinese and Spanish.
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.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 90.9% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.0% of all American neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 21.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Irish ancestry.
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 Galena are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 83.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 12.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 54.9% 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, 30.5% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 28.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (22.5%), and 18.5% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.9% of households.
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 Galena, KS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (21.9%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (20.5%), and residents who report English roots (6.6%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (3.2%), along with some Sub-Saharan African ancestry residents (2.4%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (44.7% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (90.9%) 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 (5.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.