Lakin - Deerfield is a very small town located in the state of Kansas. With a population of 3,823 people and just one neighborhood, Lakin - Deerfield is the 87th largest community in Kansas.
Lakin - Deerfield is a blue-collar town, with 37.89% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Lakin - Deerfield is a town of managers, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lakin - Deerfield who work in management occupations (19.15%), farm management occupations (13.08%), and office and administrative support (9.25%).
You will also find that a lot of people in Lakin - Deerfield work in agricultural jobs - much more than in the average community in America. This will be quite apparent if you drive around town, as much of the landscape is dedicated to farms.
A relatively large number of people in Lakin - Deerfield telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 10.77% 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.
Being a small town, Lakin - Deerfield does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Lakin - Deerfield with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 16.60% of adults in Lakin - Deerfield have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Lakin - Deerfield in 2022 was $29,465, which is lower middle income relative to Kansas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $117,860 for a family of four. However, Lakin - Deerfield contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Lakin - Deerfield is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Lakin - Deerfield home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lakin - Deerfield residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Lakin - Deerfield also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 32.62% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Lakin - Deerfield include German, English, Irish, European, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Lakin - Deerfield is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 99.3% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
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 5 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 98.3% of 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 Lakin - Deerfield are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 45.6% of the neighborhoods in America. With 24.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 74.7% 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, 32.7% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 24.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.2%), and 13.1% in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 73.9% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (24.6%).
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 Lakin - Deerfield, KS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (29.7%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (16.0%), and residents who report English roots (8.7%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (6.3%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (1.3%), among others. In addition, 12.3% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 (46.4% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
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 (12.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.