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Oskaloosa - McLouth is a somewhat small town located in the state of Kansas. With a population of 5,610 people and just one neighborhood, Oskaloosa - McLouth is the 62nd largest community in Kansas.
Oskaloosa - McLouth real estate is some of the most expensive in Kansas, although Oskaloosa - McLouth house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Occupations and Workforce
When you are in Oskaloosa - McLouth, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 36.65% of Oskaloosa - McLouth’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Oskaloosa - McLouth is a town of professionals, construction workers and builders, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Oskaloosa - McLouth who work in management occupations (11.15%), healthcare (9.72%), and teaching (8.97%).
Also of interest is that Oskaloosa - McLouth has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
A relatively large number of people in Oskaloosa - McLouth telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 9.45% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
Setting & Lifestyle
One downside of living in Oskaloosa - McLouth is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Oskaloosa - McLouth, the average commute to work is 32.64 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Oskaloosa - McLouth is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
Demographics
The percentage of people in Oskaloosa - McLouth who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 26.54% of adults in Oskaloosa - McLouth have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Oskaloosa - McLouth in 2022 was $44,543, which is wealthy relative to Kansas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $178,172 for a family of four. However, Oskaloosa - McLouth contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Oskaloosa - McLouth home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Oskaloosa - McLouth residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Oskaloosa - McLouth include German, English, Irish, Swedish, and French.
The most common language spoken in Oskaloosa - McLouth is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
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.
Real Estate
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 35 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 91.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Diversity
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Croatian and Belgian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Croatian ancestry and 1.0% have Belgian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Mon-Khmer, which is the dominant language of Cambodia, at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.0% 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 Oskaloosa - McLouth are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 65.2% of the neighborhoods in America. With 11.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 53.6% 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, 40.7% 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 36.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (13.9%), and 8.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.1% of households. Some people also speak Polish (2.8%).
Ethnicity / Ancestry
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 Oskaloosa - McLouth, KS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (27.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (15.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.9%), and some of the residents are also of Swedish ancestry (5.1%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.6%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (30.0% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (76.9%) 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 (11.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
