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North Kansas City, MO

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Overview


North Kansas City is a very small city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 4,622 people and just one neighborhood, North Kansas City is the 155th largest community in Missouri. North Kansas City has seen a significant amount of newer housing growth in recent years. Quite often, new home construction is the result of new residents moving in who are middle class or wealthier, attracted by jobs, a healthy local economy, or other amenities as they leave nearby or far away areas for greener pastures. This seems to be the case in North Kansas City, where the median household income is $42,743.00.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities, North Kansas City isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in North Kansas City are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, North Kansas City is a city of sales and office workers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in North Kansas City who work in sales jobs (21.98%), management occupations (17.68%), and office and administrative support (12.39%).

Also of interest is that North Kansas City has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 8.65% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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

Demographics

In terms of college education, North Kansas City is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 28.77% of adults 25 and older in the city have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in North Kansas City in 2022 was $37,725, which is wealthy relative to Missouri, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $150,900 for a family of four. However, North Kansas City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

North Kansas City is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call North Kansas City home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of North Kansas City residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in North Kansas City include German, Irish, English, European, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in North Kansas City is English. Other important languages spoken here include Langs. of India and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

Divorcees may find friendship and understanding in this neighborhood, as 25.0% of its residents are divorced. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis found that this divorce rate is higher than in 99.1% of the neighborhoods in America.

Real Estate

The neighborhood is very unique in that it has one of the highest proportions of one, two, or no bedroom real estate of any neighborhood in America. Most neighborhoods have a mixture of home or apartment sizes from small to large, but here the concentration of studios and other small living spaces is at near-record heights. With 83.9% of the real estate here of this small size, this most assuredly is a notable feature that makes this neighborhood unique, along with just a handful of other neighborhoods in the U.S. that share this characteristic.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish 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 North Kansas City are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 85.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 5.5% 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 63.2% 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, 46.9% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 23.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (16.7%), and 13.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.5% of households. Some people also speak Langs. of India (2.3%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.

In the neighborhood in North Kansas City, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (16.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.9%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (5.4%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (4.2%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (48.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (75.2%) 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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