Howard - Moline is a very small town located in the state of Kansas. With a population of 2,441 people and just one neighborhood, Howard - Moline is the 146th largest community in Kansas. Howard - Moline has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Unlike some towns, Howard - Moline isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Howard - Moline are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Howard - Moline is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Howard - Moline who work in management occupations (14.56%), office and administrative support (10.89%), and teaching (10.26%).
Being a small town, Howard - Moline does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The education level of Howard - Moline citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 18.22% of adults 25 and older in Howard - Moline have a college degree.
The per capita income in Howard - Moline in 2022 was $28,159, which is lower middle income relative to Kansas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $112,636 for a family of four. However, Howard - Moline contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Howard - Moline home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Howard - Moline residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Howard - Moline include German, English, Irish, Scots-Irish, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Howard - Moline is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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.
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 4 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 98.5% of America.
In addition, despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 32.0%, which is higher than 95.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Howard - Moline are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 79.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 15.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 61.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 38.4% 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 24.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.3%), and 16.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.2% 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 Howard - Moline, KS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (15.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (12.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.5%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (3.3%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (2.9%), 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 (41.4% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (77.7%) 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 (14.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.