Cottonwood Falls - Strong City is a very small town located in the state of Kansas. With a population of 2,579 people and just one neighborhood, Cottonwood Falls - Strong City is the 139th largest community in Kansas. Much of the housing stock in Cottonwood Falls - Strong City was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
When you are in Cottonwood Falls - Strong City, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 35.42% of Cottonwood Falls - Strong City’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Cottonwood Falls - Strong City is a town of sales and office workers, managers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cottonwood Falls - Strong City who work in management occupations (14.24%), office and administrative support (11.32%), and sales jobs (8.15%).
As is often the case in a small town, Cottonwood Falls - Strong City doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In terms of college education, Cottonwood Falls - Strong City is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 26.47% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Cottonwood Falls - Strong City in 2022 was $32,022, which is middle income relative to Kansas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $128,088 for a family of four. However, Cottonwood Falls - Strong City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Cottonwood Falls - Strong City home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cottonwood Falls - Strong City residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Cottonwood Falls - Strong City include German, English, Irish, French, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in Cottonwood Falls - Strong City is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish 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.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 3 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 98.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Of particular note, 5.6% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 33.6% of this neighborhood's residents have German 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 Cottonwood Falls - Strong City are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 76.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 9.9% 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 51.0% 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, 33.4% 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 30.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.4%), and 13.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.6% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (3.2%).
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 Cottonwood Falls - Strong City, KS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (33.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (14.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.5%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (5.5%), along with some French ancestry residents (4.9%), 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 (46.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (79.7%) 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 (9.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.