Toronto is a tiny city located in the state of Kansas. With a population of 204 people and just one neighborhood, Toronto is the 283rd largest community in Kansas. Toronto has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities in the country.
When you are in Toronto, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 44.44% of Toronto’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Toronto is a city of transportation and shipping workers, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Toronto who work in healthcare suport services (16.05%), food service (12.35%), and management occupations (9.88%).
The overall crime rate in Toronto is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
It is a fairly quiet city 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!) Toronto 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. Toronto has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Toronto than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Toronto may be for you.
Being a small city, Toronto does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The rate of college-level education in Toronto is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.30% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Toronto in 2022 was $26,470, which is low income relative to Kansas, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $105,880 for a family of four. However, Toronto contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Toronto is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Toronto home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Toronto residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Toronto include German, English, Irish, Scottish, and Pennsylvania German.
The most common language spoken in Toronto is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and African languages.
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.
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 98.7% of the neighborhoods in 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.
In addition, vacant homes and apartments are a significant characteristic of this neighborhood. In fact, with 43.2% of the residential real estate vacant, the neighborhood claims the distinction of having a higher vacancy rate than 98.0% of the neighborhoods in America. This can either be because much of the property is seasonally occupied, like in many vacation areas, or that much of the real estate is more permanently abandoned.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 38.4% of this neighborhood's residents have German 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 Toronto are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 68.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 22.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 72.0% 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, 36.9% 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 30.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (14.7%), and 14.4% 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 98.8% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
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 Toronto, KS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (38.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.9%), and residents who report English roots (7.1%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (5.8%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (1.6%), among others.
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 (36.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (72.7%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also hop out the door and walk to work to get to work (9.2%) and 9.2% of residents also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.