Osage City is a very small city located in the state of Kansas. With a population of 2,816 people and just one neighborhood, Osage City is the 122nd largest community in Kansas.
Unlike some cities, Osage City isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Osage City are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Osage City is a city of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Osage City who work in office and administrative support (14.69%), sales jobs (9.25%), and healthcare (7.64%).
A relatively large number of people in Osage City telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 9.96% 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.
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!) Osage City 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. Osage City has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Osage City than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Osage City may be for you.
Osage City 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 percentage of adults in Osage City who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 17.27% of the adults in Osage City have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Osage City in 2022 was $26,387, 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 $105,548 for a family of four. However, Osage City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Osage City home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Osage City residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Osage City include German, English, European, Irish, and Norwegian.
The most common language spoken in Osage City is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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 Osage City, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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 Osage City are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 78.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 26.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 77.5% 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, 30.3% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 27.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.7%), and 16.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.2% 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 Osage City, KS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (22.7%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (14.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.9%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (5.1%), along with some Norwegian ancestry residents (3.3%), 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 (44.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (75.0%) 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 (14.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.