Circleville is a tiny city located in the state of Kansas. With a population of 153 people and just one neighborhood, Circleville is the 291st largest community in Kansas. Much of the housing stock in Circleville was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic cities in the country.
When you are in Circleville, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 37.31% of Circleville’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Circleville is a city of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Circleville who work in office and administrative support (29.85%), healthcare suport services (8.96%), and sales jobs (4.48%).
Overall, Circleville’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
Being a small city, Circleville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The rate of college-level education in Circleville is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 12.24% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Circleville in 2022 was $25,873, 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 $103,492 for a family of four. However, Circleville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Circleville is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Circleville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Circleville residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Circleville include German, English, Pennsylvania German, Irish, and European.
The most common language spoken in Circleville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Native American languages and Tagalog.
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.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 11 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 96.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The neighborhood is a great option for families, as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's research on this neighborhood. The combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes, make this neighborhood among the top 8.8% of family-friendly neighborhoods in the state of Kansas. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a sense of community. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 12.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 3.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.4% of the neighborhoods in 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 Circleville are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 49.3% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 8.0% 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 55.9% 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, 36.0% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 26.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.7%), and 15.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.0% of households. Some people also speak Native American languages (3.0%).
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 Circleville, KS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (22.2%). There are also a number of people of Native American ancestry (12.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.7%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (8.1%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (4.2%), 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 (31.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (81.6%) 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 (13.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.