Leoti is a very small city located in the state of Kansas. With a population of 1,432 people and just one neighborhood, Leoti is the 205th largest community in Kansas.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Leoti is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 35.60% of the Leoti workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Leoti is a city of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Leoti who work in management occupations (13.90%), office and administrative support (13.33%), and farm management occupations (9.22%).
You will also find that a lot of people in Leoti work in agricultural jobs - much more than in the average community in America. This will be quite apparent if you drive around town, as much of the landscape is dedicated to farms.
And if you like science, one thing you'll find is that Leoti has lots of scientists living in town - whether they be life scientists, physical scientists (like astronomers), or social scientists (like geographers!). So, if you're scientific-minded, you might like it here too.
Of important note, Leoti is also a city of artists. Leoti has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Leoti’s character.
One of the benefits of Leoti is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 15.45 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.
Being a small city, Leoti does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Leoti who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.66% of the adults in Leoti have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Leoti in 2022 was $34,911, which is upper middle income relative to Kansas, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $139,644 for a family of four. However, Leoti contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Leoti is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Leoti home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Leoti residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Leoti also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 41.96% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Leoti include German, Irish, English, European, and Russian.
The most common language spoken in Leoti is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Leoti, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 9.6% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 99.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 3 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 98.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Whether walking, biking, riding, or driving, the length of one's commute is an important factor for one's quality of life. The neighborhood stands out for its commute length, according to NeighborhoodScout's analysis. Residents of the neighborhood have the pleasure of having one of the shortest commutes to work of any neighborhood in America. 64.3% of the residents have a commute time from home to work (one way) of less than fifteen minutes. This is a higher proportion of residents enjoying a short trip to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. Less time commuting means more time for other things in life.
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 Leoti are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 44.9% of the neighborhoods in America. With 15.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 61.9% of U.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, 40.0% 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 21.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.0%), and 12.2% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 82.8% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Leoti, KS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (29.4%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (26.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.8%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (6.1%), along with some Swedish 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 (64.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (67.8%) 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 (16.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.