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Pleasanton - Mound City, KS

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Overview


Pleasanton - Mound City is a very small town located in the state of Kansas. With a population of 4,290 people and just one neighborhood, Pleasanton - Mound City is the 81st largest community in Kansas.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Pleasanton - Mound City is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 35.15% of the Pleasanton - Mound City workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Pleasanton - Mound City is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Pleasanton - Mound City who work in sales jobs (11.91%), office and administrative support (10.51%), and teaching (7.33%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

Demographics

The education level of Pleasanton - Mound City citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 22.20% of adults in Pleasanton - Mound City have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Pleasanton - Mound City in 2022 was $30,046, which is middle income relative to Kansas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $120,184 for a family of four. However, Pleasanton - Mound City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Pleasanton - Mound City home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pleasanton - Mound City residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Pleasanton - Mound City include German, Irish, English, French, and European.

The most common language spoken in Pleasanton - Mound City is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

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 17 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.5% of America.

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 Pleasanton - Mound City are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 74.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 8.1% 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 55.7% of America'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, 32.0% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 25.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.5%), and 15.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.9% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.0%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Pleasanton - Mound City, KS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (23.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (15.2%), and residents who report English roots (12.0%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (2.0%), along with some French ancestry residents (1.6%), 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 (36.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (76.5%) 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 (12.2%) . 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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