Nickerson is a very small city located in the state of Kansas. With a population of 1,056 people and just one neighborhood, Nickerson is the 223rd largest community in Kansas. Much of the housing stock in Nickerson was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic cities in the country.
Nickerson is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Nickerson is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Nickerson who work in office and administrative support (15.97%), management occupations (15.34%), and maintenance occupations (8.40%).
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!) Nickerson 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. Nickerson has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Nickerson than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Nickerson may be for you.
Being a small city, Nickerson does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Nickerson rank slightly lower than the national average. 15.74% of adults 25 and older in Nickerson 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 Nickerson in 2022 was $25,226, which is low income relative to Kansas, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $100,904 for a family of four. However, Nickerson contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Nickerson home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Nickerson residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Nickerson include German, Irish, English, Norwegian, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Nickerson is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Greek.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Nickerson, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 14 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 96.2% of America.
It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 4.3% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 96.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Significantly, 0.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.0% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Nickerson are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 75.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 0.5% 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 80.0% of America'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, 33.9% 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 26.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.9%), and 17.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.0% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.7%).
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 Nickerson, KS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (21.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.7%), and residents who report English roots (8.3%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (2.9%), along with some Norwegian ancestry residents (2.1%), 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 (47.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (88.2%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.