La Cygne is a very small city located in the state of Kansas. With a population of 1,035 people and just one neighborhood, La Cygne is the 225th largest community in Kansas.
La Cygne is a blue-collar town, with 46.98% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, La Cygne is a city of construction workers and builders, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in La Cygne who work in office and administrative support (10.02%), healthcare suport services (8.29%), and healthcare (6.22%).
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!) La Cygne 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. La Cygne has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in La Cygne than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, La Cygne may be for you.
In La Cygne, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 34.72 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
La Cygne 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.
In La Cygne, just 6.76% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in La Cygne in 2022 was $25,488, 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 $101,952 for a family of four. However, La Cygne contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call La Cygne home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of La Cygne residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in La Cygne include Irish, German, French, English, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in La Cygne is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
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.
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 42 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 90.6% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Irish and Belgian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 22.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Irish ancestry and 0.6% have Belgian ancestry.
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 La Cygne are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 69.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 18.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 66.0% of U.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, 33.2% 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 28.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (19.6%), and 18.4% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.4% of households.
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in La Cygne, KS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (22.7%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (17.6%), and residents who report English roots (11.6%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (5.5%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.5%), 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 between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (33.8% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (78.2%) 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 (12.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.