Weir - Scammon is a very small town located in the state of Kansas. With a population of 2,555 people and just one neighborhood, Weir - Scammon is the 138th largest community in Kansas. Weir - Scammon has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Weir - Scammon is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 35.04% of the Weir - Scammon workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Weir - Scammon is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Weir - Scammon who work in healthcare (10.14%), sales jobs (9.63%), and management occupations (8.91%).
Weir - Scammon 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 Weir - Scammon citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 21.51% of adults in Weir - Scammon have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Weir - Scammon in 2022 was $22,992, which is low income relative to Kansas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $91,968 for a family of four. However, Weir - Scammon contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Weir - Scammon home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Weir - Scammon residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Weir - Scammon include German, Irish, Italian, English, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Weir - Scammon is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian 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.
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 95.5% of the neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Belgian and Austrian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Belgian ancestry and 1.1% have Austrian 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 Weir - Scammon are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 72.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 16.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 62.6% 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, 35.0% 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 31.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.7%), and 11.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.9% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.9%).
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 Weir - Scammon, KS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (11.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (6.7%), and residents who report Italian roots (5.8%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (5.3%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.7%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (54.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (76.9%) 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 (16.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.