Kersey is a very small town located in the state of Colorado. With a population of 1,503 people and just one neighborhood, Kersey is the 158th largest community in Colorado.
Housing costs in Kersey are among some of the highest in the nation, although real estate prices here don't compare to real estate prices in the most expensive communities in Colorado.
Unlike some towns, Kersey isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Kersey are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Kersey is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Kersey who work in sales jobs (17.07%), healthcare (9.04%), and office and administrative support (6.60%).
Being a small town, Kersey does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The education level of Kersey citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 19.60% of adults 25 and older in Kersey have a college degree.
The per capita income in Kersey in 2022 was $30,078, which is lower middle income relative to Colorado, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $120,312 for a family of four. However, Kersey contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Kersey is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Kersey home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Kersey residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Kersey also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 25.60% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Kersey include German, English, Irish, Russian, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Kersey is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swedish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 7.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Swedish ancestry.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Kersey are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 61.6% of the neighborhoods in America. With 12.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 56.0% 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, 34.6% 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 29.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.0%), and 10.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 92.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Italian and Polish.
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 Kersey, CO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (28.5%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (10.6%), and residents who report English roots (10.4%), and some of the residents are also of Swedish ancestry (7.6%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (6.7%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (37.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (86.9%) 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 (6.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.