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Marquette, KS

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Overview


Marquette is a tiny city located in the state of Kansas. With a population of 590 people and just one neighborhood, Marquette is the 250th largest community in Kansas. Marquette has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities in the country.

Marquette real estate is some of the most expensive in Kansas, although Marquette house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities, Marquette isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Marquette are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Marquette is a city of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Marquette who work in office and administrative support (15.47%), healthcare suport services (9.94%), and healthcare (7.46%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Overall, Marquette’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

One downside of living in Marquette, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 30.41 minutes every day commuting to work.

Being a small city, Marquette does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

In Marquette, just 11.88% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.

The per capita income in Marquette in 2022 was $38,152, which is wealthy relative to Kansas, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $152,608 for a family of four. However, Marquette contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Marquette home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Marquette residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Marquette include German, Swedish, Irish, English, and French.

The most common language spoken in Marquette is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

People

Astoundingly, NeighborhoodScout's research reveals that this single neighborhood has a higher concentration of married couples living here than 98.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods. Whether they have school-aged children or not, married couples are the rule in the neighborhood. If you are a married couple, you may find many people here with a similar lifestyle, and perhaps common interests. But if you are single, you might not find many other singles here.

In addition, the neighborhood is a great option for families, as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's research on this neighborhood. The combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes, make this neighborhood among the top 6.3% of family-friendly neighborhoods in the state of Kansas. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a sense of community. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools.

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 8 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 97.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swedish and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 13.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Swedish ancestry and 37.5% have German ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Marquette are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 55.3% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 8.6% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 54.2% of America'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, 41.8% 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 29.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (14.2%), and 12.0% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 89.0% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (10.4%).

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 Marquette, KS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (37.5%). There are also a number of people of Swedish ancestry (13.7%), and residents who report English roots (9.7%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (7.4%), along with some French ancestry residents (5.1%), among others.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (40.2% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (79.7%) 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 (7.2%) . 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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