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Lecompton, KS

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Overview


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 a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities in the country.

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.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Lecompton, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 47.22% of Lecompton’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. 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%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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.

One downside of living in Lecompton, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.29 minutes every day commuting to work.

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

Demographics

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.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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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 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.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.5% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 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.

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 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.


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