Pleasanton - Mound City is a very small town located in the state of Kansas. With a population of 4,278 people and just one neighborhood, Pleasanton - Mound City is the 81st largest community in Kansas.
When you are in Pleasanton - Mound City, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 35.15% of Pleasanton - Mound City’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Pleasanton - Mound City is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Pleasanton - Mound City who work in sales jobs (11.91%), office and administrative support (10.51%), and teaching (7.33%).
Being a small town, Pleasanton - Mound City does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The education level of Pleasanton - Mound City citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 22.20% of adults in Pleasanton - Mound City have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Pleasanton - Mound City in 2022 was $30,046, which is middle income relative to Kansas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $120,184 for a family of four. However, Pleasanton - Mound City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Pleasanton - Mound City home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pleasanton - Mound City residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Pleasanton - Mound City include German, Irish, English, French, and European.
The most common language spoken in Pleasanton - Mound City is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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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 17 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.5% of 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 Pleasanton - Mound City are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 74.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 8.1% 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 55.7% of America'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, 32.0% 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 25.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.5%), and 15.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.9% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.0%).
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 Pleasanton - Mound City, KS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (23.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (15.2%), and residents who report English roots (12.0%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (2.0%), along with some French 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 (36.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (76.5%) 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 (12.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.