Mulvane is a somewhat small city located in the state of Kansas. With a population of 6,936 people and just one neighborhood, Mulvane is the 55th largest community in Kansas.
Unlike some cities, Mulvane isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Mulvane are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Mulvane is a city of managers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mulvane who work in business and financial occupations (13.68%), management occupations (11.88%), and office and administrative support (10.98%).
Mulvane is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The citizens of Mulvane are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 34.38% of adults in Mulvane have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.
The per capita income in Mulvane in 2022 was $35,620, 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 $142,480 for a family of four. However, Mulvane contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Mulvane home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mulvane residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Mulvane include German, English, Irish, Italian, and Welsh.
The most common language spoken in Mulvane 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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish 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 Mulvane are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 54.6% of the neighborhoods in America. With 23.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 74.9% 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, 51.1% 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 22.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (15.6%), and 11.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.3% of households.
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 Mulvane, KS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (19.7%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (19.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (13.9%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (5.4%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (3.6%), among others.
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 (36.0% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (81.7%) 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 (5.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.