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Kinsley, KS

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Overview


Kinsley is a very small city located in the state of Kansas. With a population of 1,374 people and just one neighborhood, Kinsley is the 207th largest community in Kansas.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities, Kinsley isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Kinsley are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Kinsley is a city of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Kinsley who work in management occupations (11.96%), office and administrative support (10.47%), and teaching (7.81%).

Also of interest is that Kinsley has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

As is often the case in a small city, Kinsley doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of Kinsley rank slightly lower than the national average. 16.94% of adults 25 and older in Kinsley have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.

The per capita income in Kinsley in 2022 was $27,208, which is lower middle income relative to Kansas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $108,832 for a family of four. However, Kinsley contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Kinsley is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Kinsley home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Kinsley residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Kinsley also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 27.57% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Kinsley include German, English, Irish, Scottish, and European.

The most common language spoken in Kinsley is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Slavic languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

The Neighbors

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 Kinsley are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 82.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 10.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 51.1% 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, 32.8% 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 30.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.8%), and 16.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 75.6% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (23.4%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Kinsley, KS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (26.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (20.5%), and residents who report English roots (7.4%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (5.3%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.2%), among others. In addition, 10.7% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

Getting to Work

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 (56.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (79.0%) 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 (10.7%) and 5.7% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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