Pleasanton - Mound City is a very small town located in the state of Kansas. With a population of 4,290 people and just one neighborhood, Pleasanton - Mound City is the 81st largest community in Kansas.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Pleasanton - Mound City is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 35.15% of the Pleasanton - Mound City workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Pleasanton - Mound City is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Pleasanton - Mound City who work in sales jobs (11.91%), office and administrative support (10.51%), and teaching (7.33%).
Pleasanton - Mound City 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.
The citizens of Pleasanton - Mound City are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 22.20% of adults in Pleasanton - Mound City having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Pleasanton - Mound City in 2022 was $30,046, which is middle income relative to Kansas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $120,184 for a family of four. However, Pleasanton - Mound City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Pleasanton - Mound City home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pleasanton - Mound City residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Pleasanton - Mound City include German, Irish, English, French, and European.
The most common language spoken in Pleasanton - Mound City is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 Pleasanton - Mound City, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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 95.5% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Pleasanton - Mound City are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 74.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 8.1% 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 55.7% of America'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, 32.0% 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 25.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.5%), and 15.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.9% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.0%).
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 Pleasanton - Mound City, KS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (23.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (15.2%), and residents who report English roots (12.0%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (2.0%), along with some French ancestry residents (1.6%), 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 (36.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (76.5%) 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 (12.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.