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Yates Center, KS

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Overview


Yates Center is a very small city located in the state of Kansas. With a population of 1,327 people and just one neighborhood, Yates Center is the 214th largest community in Kansas. Yates Center has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities.

Occupations and Workforce

Yates Center is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Yates Center is a city of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Yates Center who work in teaching (10.69%), management occupations (8.18%), and office and administrative support (7.55%).

Of important note, Yates Center is also a city of artists. Yates Center has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Yates Center’s character.

Setting & Lifestyle

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!) Yates Center 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. Yates Center has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Yates Center than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Yates Center may be for you.

As is often the case in a small city, Yates Center doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The population of Yates Center overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Yates Center, 21.17% have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Yates Center in 2022 was $28,043, which is lower middle income relative to Kansas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $112,172 for a family of four. However, Yates Center contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Yates Center home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Yates Center residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Yates Center include German, Irish, English, British, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Yates Center is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

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.

Car Ownership

Most American households own a car or other vehicle. Many own two cars or perhaps three. In the United States, it is useful to have an automobile not only for commuting, but also for shopping and getting to other services one needs. But NeighborhoodScout's analysis revealed that households in the neighborhood have a highly unusual car ownership. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 37.9% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 97.5% of the neighborhoods in the nation.

People

If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Yates Center is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in KS, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 88.9% of the neighborhoods in Kansas. If you are considering retiring to Kansas, this is a good neighborhood to look at.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more British ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.0% of this neighborhood's residents have British ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Yates Center are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 89.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 6.7% 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 59.3% 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, 31.7% 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 30.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (26.8%), and 10.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.8% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Yates Center, KS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (29.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.8%), and residents who report English roots (9.3%), and some of the residents are also of British ancestry (3.0%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.7%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (45.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (88.4%) 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 (7.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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