Lecompton is a tiny city located in the state of Kansas. With a population of 591 people and just one neighborhood, Lecompton is the 252nd largest community in Kansas. Lecompton has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities.
Lecompton real estate is some of the most expensive in Kansas, although Lecompton house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Lecompton is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 47.22% of the Lecompton workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Lecompton is a city of construction workers and builders, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lecompton who work in sales jobs (8.33%), office and administrative support (7.69%), and business and financial occupations (6.20%).
Residents will find that the city is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Lecompton is worth considering.
In Lecompton, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 31.29 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Being a small city, Lecompton does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Lecompton who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 17.10% of the adults in Lecompton have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Lecompton in 2022 was $30,719, which is middle income relative to Kansas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $122,876 for a family of four. However, Lecompton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Lecompton is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Lecompton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lecompton residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Lecompton include German, Irish, English, French, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Lecompton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Korean.
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.
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 Lecompton are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 65.6% of the neighborhoods in America. With 10.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 51.2% 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, 40.3% 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 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 (18.5%), and 12.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.5% of households.
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 Lecompton, KS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (21.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.8%), and residents who report English roots (13.2%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (6.5%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (4.3%), 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 (30.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (81.9%) 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 (7.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.