Herington is a very small city located in the state of Kansas. With a population of 2,100 people and just one neighborhood, Herington is the 167th largest community in Kansas. Much of the housing stock in Herington was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic cities in the country.
Herington is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Herington is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Herington who work in office and administrative support (13.33%), management occupations (11.52%), and healthcare (8.69%).
The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Herington has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Herington a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
As is often the case in a small city, Herington doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The education level of Herington citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 23.14% of adults in Herington have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Herington in 2022 was $40,769, which is wealthy relative to Kansas, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $163,076 for a family of four. However, Herington contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Herington is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Herington home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Herington residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Herington include German, Irish, English, European, and Czech.
The most common language spoken in Herington is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Lebanese ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Lebanese ancestry.
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 Herington are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 60.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 23.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 73.6% 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, 36.3% 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 26.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.4%), and 14.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.8% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 Herington, KS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (33.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (15.8%), and residents who report English roots (12.9%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (4.3%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (3.3%), among others.
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 (31.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (85.5%) 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 (11.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.