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.
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.
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.
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, 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.
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 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.