Logan is a tiny city located in the state of Kansas. With a population of 436 people and just one neighborhood, Logan is the 257th largest community in Kansas.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Logan is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 65.13% of the Logan workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Logan is a city of farmers, fishers, or foresters, construction workers and builders, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Logan who work in farm management occupations (22.04%), teaching (6.25%), and office and administrative support (4.28%).
You will also find that a lot of people in Logan work in agricultural jobs - much more than in the average community in America. This will be quite apparent if you drive around town, as much of the landscape is dedicated to farms.
Logan’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
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!) Logan 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. Logan has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Logan than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Logan may be for you.
In Logan, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 30.73 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Being a small city, Logan does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Logan with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 14.37% of adults in Logan have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Logan in 2022 was $26,554, 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 $106,216 for a family of four. However, Logan contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Logan also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 38.50% of its population below the federal poverty line.
The people who call Logan home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Logan residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Logan include Irish, German, Dutch, French, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Logan is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Logan, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 99.1% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
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 3 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 98.8% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 10.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry.
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 Logan are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 66.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 40.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 89.6% of U.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, 34.6% 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 32.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (12.2%), and 10.8% in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.3% 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 Logan, KS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (32.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (18.0%), and residents who report Dutch roots (10.7%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (8.8%), along with some French ancestry residents (3.5%), 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 (42.4% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (73.0%) 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 (21.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.