Kearny is a very small town located in the state of Arizona. With a population of 1,817 people and just one neighborhood, Kearny is the 127th largest community in Arizona.
When you are in Kearny, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 35.13% of Kearny’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Kearny is a town of construction workers and builders, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Kearny who work in office and administrative support (11.96%), food service (11.85%), and sales jobs (6.79%).
Of important note, Kearny is also a town of artists. Kearny has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Kearny’s character.
Also of interest is that Kearny has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
A relatively large number of people in Kearny telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 17.56% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.
It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Kearny has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Kearny has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Kearny than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Kearny may be for you.
Being a small town, Kearny does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Kearny ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 5.81% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Kearny in 2022 was $28,936, which is middle income relative to Arizona, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $115,744 for a family of four. However, Kearny contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Kearny is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Kearny home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Kearny residents report their race to be White. Kearny also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 39.51% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Kearny include German, Irish, Scottish, Italian, and English.
The most common language spoken in Kearny is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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.
American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the neighborhood buck this trend. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 45.0% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 99.2% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
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 6 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 98.1% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Danish and Scottish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Danish ancestry and 7.1% have Scottish ancestry.
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 Kearny are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 71.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 19.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 68.4% of U.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, 34.7% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 25.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (25.4%), and 14.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 83.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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 Kearny, AZ, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (33.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (20.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (13.0%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (8.4%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (7.1%), among others.
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 (54.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (65.3%) 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 (17.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.