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Mount Hope - Bentley is a very small town located in the state of Kansas. With a population of 2,253 people and just one neighborhood, Mount Hope - Bentley is the 160th largest community in Kansas. Mount Hope - Bentley has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Occupations and Workforce
Mount Hope - Bentley is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Mount Hope - Bentley is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Mount Hope - Bentley who work in office and administrative support (17.28%), maintenance occupations (14.16%), and management occupations (10.33%).
A relatively large number of people in Mount Hope - Bentley telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 11.54% 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.
Setting & Lifestyle
Because of many things, Mount Hope - Bentley is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Mount Hope - Bentley a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Mount Hope - Bentley has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Mount Hope - Bentley’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.
Mount Hope - Bentley is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
Demographics
The citizens of Mount Hope - Bentley are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 22.26% of adults in Mount Hope - Bentley having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Mount Hope - Bentley in 2022 was $33,295, which is upper middle income relative to Kansas, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $133,180 for a family of four. However, Mount Hope - Bentley contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Mount Hope - Bentley is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Mount Hope - Bentley home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mount Hope - Bentley residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Mount Hope - Bentley also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 14.42% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Mount Hope - Bentley include German, English, Irish, Italian, and European.
The most common language spoken in Mount Hope - Bentley is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Vietnamese.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
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.
Occupations
With 1.9% of employed workers living in the neighborhood active in the military, this neighborhood has the distinction of having a higher proportion of people in the military than 96.0% of American neighborhoods. This is a major shaper of the neighborhood's culture and character.
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 31 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 92.6% of America.
The Neighbors
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 Mount Hope - Bentley are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 60.9% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 4.2% 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 67.2% 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, 30.9% 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 28.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (20.7%), and 20.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 87.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (10.8%).
Ethnicity / Ancestry
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 Mount Hope - Bentley, KS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (27.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (17.2%), and residents who report Mexican roots (13.4%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (8.0%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (3.5%), among others.
Getting to Work
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 (41.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (72.7%) 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 (15.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
