Overall, Ulysses’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 of the benefits of Ulysses is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 19.24 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.
Ulysses is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Ulysses rank slightly lower than the national average. 16.96% of adults 25 and older in Ulysses have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Ulysses in 2022 was $33,602, 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 $134,408 for a family of four. However, Ulysses contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Ulysses is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Ulysses home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Ulysses, accounting for 51.03% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Ulysses residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Ulysses include German, Irish, English, Scottish, and Russian.
Ulysses also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 21.43%.
The most common language spoken in Ulysses is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Portuguese.
