Lebo - Gridley is a very small town located in the state of Kansas. With a population of 2,825 people and just one neighborhood, Lebo - Gridley is the 123rd largest community in Kansas.
Unlike some towns, Lebo - Gridley isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Lebo - Gridley are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Lebo - Gridley is a town of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lebo - Gridley who work in office and administrative support (11.58%), management occupations (9.75%), and teaching (7.58%).
Lebo - Gridley is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The education level of Lebo - Gridley citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 23.50% of adults in Lebo - Gridley have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Lebo - Gridley in 2022 was $37,709, which is wealthy relative to Kansas, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $150,836 for a family of four. However, Lebo - Gridley contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Lebo - Gridley home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lebo - Gridley residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Lebo - Gridley include German, European, Irish, English, and Welsh.
The most common language spoken in Lebo - Gridley is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
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 10 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 97.1% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Welsh ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Welsh 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 Lebo - Gridley are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 56.3% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 6.0% 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 61.5% 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, 30.9% 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 30.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.7%), and 13.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.0% 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 Lebo - Gridley, KS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (30.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.4%), and residents who report English roots (10.9%), and some of the residents are also of Welsh ancestry (2.7%), along with some Scottish 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (36.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (83.9%) 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 (8.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.