The overall crime rate in Ulysses is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
Residents of the city have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 19.24 minutes getting to work every day.
Being a small city, Ulysses does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Ulysses are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.96% of adults in Ulysses have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Ulysses in 2022 was $33,602, which is upper middle income relative to Kansas, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $134,408 for a family of four. However, Ulysses contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Ulysses is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Ulysses home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Ulysses, accounting for 51.03% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Ulysses residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Ulysses include German, Irish, English, Scottish, and Russian.
Ulysses also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 21.43%.
The most common language spoken in Ulysses is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Portuguese.
