Logan is a tiny city located in the state of Kansas. With a population of 436 people and just one neighborhood, Logan is the 257th largest community in Kansas.
Logan is a blue-collar town, with 58.62% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Logan is a city of construction workers and builders, professionals, and farmers, fishers, or foresters. There are especially a lot of people living in Logan who work in farm management occupations (18.10%), teaching (11.78%), and healthcare (7.47%).
In addition, many people in Logan have jobs in agriculture, more so than in most other communities in America. As a result, you will see quite a number of farms around town.
The overall crime rate in Logan 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.
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, Logan has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Logan a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Logan, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 30.78 minutes every day commuting to work.
Being a small city, Logan does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The education level of Logan citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 17.54% of adults 25 and older in Logan have a college degree.
The per capita income in Logan in 2022 was $24,569, 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 $98,276 for a family of four. However, Logan contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Logan also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 36.49% of its population below the federal poverty line.
The people who call Logan home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Logan residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Logan include Irish, German, French, English, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Logan is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 Logan, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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 99.3% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 98.8% of the neighborhoods in America.
Whether walking, biking, riding, or driving, the length of one's commute is an important factor for one's quality of life. The neighborhood stands out for its commute length, according to NeighborhoodScout's analysis. Long commutes can be brutal. They take time, money, and energy, leaving less of you for yourself and your family. The residents of the neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 10.1% of commuters here travel more than one hour just one-way to work. That is more than two hours per day. This percentage with two-hour + round-trip commutes is higher than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.5% of all neighborhoods in America.
If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Logan is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in KS, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 85.8% of the neighborhoods in Kansas. If you are considering retiring to Kansas, this is a good neighborhood to look at.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 11.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry and 33.8% have German ancestry.
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 Logan are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 66.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 42.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 90.5% 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, 35.8% 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 32.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing (12.6%), and 10.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.1% of households.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Logan, KS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (33.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (16.9%), and residents who report Dutch roots (11.1%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (9.2%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (4.0%), 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 (41.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America. However, there is also a significant group of residents (10.1%) who commute over an hour in each direction.
Here most residents (71.4%) 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 (21.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.