Harper is a very small city located in the state of Kansas. With a population of 1,276 people and just one neighborhood, Harper is the 216th largest community in Kansas.
When you are in Harper, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 48.49% of Harper’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Harper is a city of production and manufacturing workers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Harper who work in office and administrative support (10.66%), healthcare (10.26%), and sales jobs (8.65%).
It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Harper has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Harper has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Harper than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Harper may be for you.
Harper is a small city, 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 Harper have a very low rate of college education: just 8.58% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.
The per capita income in Harper in 2022 was $27,787, which is lower middle income relative to Kansas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $111,148 for a family of four. However, Harper contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Harper is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Harper home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Harper residents report their race to be White, followed by Native Hawaiian. Harper also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 11.38% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Harper include German, English, Irish, French, and Czech.
The most common language spoken in Harper is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 9 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 97.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 42.8% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 95.9% of American neighborhoods.
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 Harper are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 68.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 16.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 63.2% of U.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, 42.8% 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 28.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (13.8%), and 12.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.3% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (4.5%).
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Harper, KS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (19.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (14.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.8%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (2.8%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.0%), 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 (50.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (76.8%) 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 (12.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.