Galva - Canton is a very small town located in the state of Kansas. With a population of 2,849 people and just one neighborhood, Galva - Canton is the 124th largest community in Kansas.
Galva - Canton is a blue-collar town, with 38.59% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Galva - Canton is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Galva - Canton who work in sales jobs (9.26%), management occupations (8.54%), and healthcare (8.41%).
Galva - Canton 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 Galva - Canton are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 22.54% of adults in Galva - Canton having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Galva - Canton in 2022 was $38,779, which is wealthy relative to Kansas, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $155,116 for a family of four. However, Galva - Canton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Galva - Canton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Galva - Canton residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Galva - Canton include German, Swedish, Irish, English, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Galva - Canton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 13 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 96.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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, 14.6% 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 Galva - Canton are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 57.0% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.3% 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 70.5% of America's neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 38.6% 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 29.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.7%), and 11.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.7% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.3%).
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 Galva - Canton, KS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (31.9%). There are also a number of people of Swedish ancestry (14.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.9%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (6.8%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (3.3%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (42.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (85.4%) 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 (6.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.