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.
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.
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.
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 98.3% of the neighborhoods in America.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this 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.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
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%).
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 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.
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 (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.