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Lewis - Offerle, KS

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Overview


Lewis - Offerle is a very small town located in the state of Kansas. With a population of 1,309 people and just one neighborhood, Lewis - Offerle is the 212th largest community in Kansas. Lewis - Offerle has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.

Occupations and Workforce

Lewis - Offerle is a blue-collar town, with 37.03% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Lewis - Offerle is a town of managers, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lewis - Offerle who work in management occupations (23.44%), farm management occupations (11.79%), and office and administrative support (9.85%).

You will also find that a lot of people in Lewis - Offerle work in agricultural jobs - much more than in the average community in America. This will be quite apparent if you drive around town, as much of the landscape is dedicated to farms.

A relatively large number of people in Lewis - Offerle telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 14.99% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

Residents of the town have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 18.89 minutes getting to work every day.

As is often the case in a small town, Lewis - Offerle doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Lewis - Offerle who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 18.05% of the adults in Lewis - Offerle have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Lewis - Offerle in 2022 was $34,774, 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 $139,096 for a family of four. However, Lewis - Offerle contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Lewis - Offerle is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Lewis - Offerle home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lewis - Offerle residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Lewis - Offerle also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 16.10% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Lewis - Offerle include German, English, Irish, Scots-Irish, and Czechoslovakian.

The most common language spoken in Lewis - Offerle is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Lewis - Offerle, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Occupations

Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 99.2% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 2 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 99.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Czechoslovakian and Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Czechoslovakian ancestry and 4.6% have Scots-Irish ancestry.

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 Lewis - Offerle are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 42.5% of the neighborhoods in America. With 26.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 77.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 31.1% 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 25.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.3%), and 13.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 85.8% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (12.9%).

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 Lewis - Offerle, KS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (32.7%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (13.0%), and residents who report English roots (9.9%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (7.1%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (4.6%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (53.4% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (73.7%) 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 (10.2%) . 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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