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Lucas - Gorham, KS

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Overview


Lucas - Gorham is a very small town located in the state of Kansas. With a population of 2,139 people and just one neighborhood, Lucas - Gorham is the 164th largest community in Kansas. Much of the housing stock in Lucas - Gorham was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Lucas - Gorham is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Lucas - Gorham is a town of sales and office workers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Lucas - Gorham who work in office and administrative support (16.57%), management occupations (11.62%), and sales jobs (10.32%).

Also of interest is that Lucas - Gorham has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

Being a small town, Lucas - Gorham does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

In terms of college education, Lucas - Gorham is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 19.82% of adults 25 and older in Lucas - Gorham have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Lucas - Gorham in 2022 was $36,820, which is wealthy relative to Kansas, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $147,280 for a family of four. However, Lucas - Gorham contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Lucas - Gorham home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lucas - Gorham residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Lucas - Gorham include German, English, Irish, French, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Lucas - Gorham is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Spanish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Lucas - Gorham, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Real Estate

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 3 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 98.9% of America. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.

Car Ownership

We Americans love our cars. Not only are they a necessity for most Americans due to the shape of our neighborhoods and the distances between where we live, work, shop, and go to school, but we also fancy them. As a result, most households in America have one, two, or three cars. But NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis shows that the neighborhood has a highly unusual pattern of car ownership. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 39.2% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 97.9% of the neighborhoods in the nation.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Czechoslovakian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 43.8% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 0.6% have Czechoslovakian ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Lucas - Gorham are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 69.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 7.1% 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 58.2% 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, 33.0% 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 25.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.2%), and 18.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.3% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Lucas - Gorham, KS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (43.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (11.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.0%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (4.6%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.8%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (41.2% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (81.1%) 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 (11.4%) . 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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