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La Cygne, KS

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Overview


La Cygne is a very small city located in the state of Kansas. With a population of 1,035 people and just one neighborhood, La Cygne is the 225th largest community in Kansas.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in La Cygne, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 49.84% of La Cygne’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, La Cygne is a city of construction workers and builders, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in La Cygne who work in office and administrative support (10.84%), healthcare suport services (7.61%), and teaching (6.63%).

Setting & Lifestyle

It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) La Cygne has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. La Cygne has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in La Cygne than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, La Cygne may be for you.

One downside of living in La Cygne is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In La Cygne, the average commute to work is 35.29 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Being a small city, La Cygne does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The population of La Cygne has a very low overall level of education: only 9.61% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in La Cygne in 2022 was $26,761, which is low income relative to Kansas, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $107,044 for a family of four. However, La Cygne contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call La Cygne home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of La Cygne residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in La Cygne include German, Irish, English, French, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in La Cygne is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.

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.

Car Ownership

We Americans love our cars. Not only are they a necessity for most Americans due to the shape of our neighborhoods and the distances between where we live, work, shop, and go to school, but we also fancy them. As a result, most households in America have one, two, or three cars. But NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis shows that the neighborhood has a highly unusual pattern of car ownership. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 33.6% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 95.4% of the neighborhoods in the nation.

Real Estate

Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 90.6% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 La Cygne are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 74.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 17.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 66.0% of U.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, 33.0% 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 26.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (22.2%), and 17.9% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.9% 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 La Cygne, KS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (18.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (17.7%), and residents who report English roots (12.4%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (4.0%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.4%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (30.4% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (76.6%) 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 (15.0%) . 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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