Bel Aire is a somewhat small city located in the state of Kansas. With a population of 8,822 people and just one neighborhood, Bel Aire is the 44th largest community in Kansas.
Bel Aire real estate is some of the most expensive in Kansas, although Bel Aire house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Bel Aire is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 85.46% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Bel Aire is a city of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bel Aire who work in teaching (12.34%), sales jobs (10.13%), and management occupations (9.75%).
Also of interest is that Bel Aire 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 Bel Aire telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 10.70% 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.
As is often the case in a small city, Bel Aire doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
Do you like to read, write and learn? If you move to Bel Aire, you'll likely find that many of your neighbors like to as well. Bel Aire is one of the more educated communities in America, with a full 53.34% of its adults having a college degree or even advanced degree, compared to a national average across all communities of 21.84%.
The per capita income in Bel Aire in 2022 was $38,514, which is wealthy relative to Kansas, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $154,056 for a family of four. However, Bel Aire contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Bel Aire is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Bel Aire home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bel Aire residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Bel Aire also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 12.61% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Bel Aire include German, English, Irish, Scottish, and French.
The most common language spoken in Bel Aire is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Vietnamese.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
If you are an executive or professional seeking a neighborhood affording an executive lifestyle, or just wanting to find where other executives live in the area, the neighborhood should be on your list. It has an enviable mix of spacious homes, relatively stable real estate values, and residents that include a number of wealthy executives, managers, and professionals. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis places it as one of the top 14.0% executive lifestyle neighborhoods in the state of Kansas.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 2.5% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Vietnamese at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.5% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Bel Aire are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 74.8% of the neighborhoods in America. With 12.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 55.7% of U.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, 54.7% 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 20.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (13.5%), and 11.5% 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 88.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Vietnamese.
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 Bel Aire, KS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (29.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (14.3%), and residents who report Mexican roots (11.8%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (6.9%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (6.4%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (50.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (80.7%) 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 (8.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.