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Ogden, KS

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Overview


Ogden is a very small city located in the state of Kansas. With a population of 1,639 people and just one neighborhood, Ogden is the 195th largest community in Kansas. Much of the housing stock in Ogden was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Ogden economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Ogden, where the median household income is $57,392.00.

Ogden real estate is some of the most expensive in Kansas, although Ogden house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

Ogden is a military town: the armed forces employs 16.86% of the workforce, making the military a major focus of life in the city. In the civilian sector, Retail and Healthcare are important in the local economy and are the city’s largest civilian employers, employing 20.68% and 14.26% of the civilian workforce respectively.

Also of interest is that Ogden has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

Being a small city, Ogden does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The education level of Ogden citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (21.84%): 34.69% of adults in Ogden have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Ogden in 2018 was $29,368, which is lower middle income relative to Kansas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $117,472 for a family of four. However, Ogden contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Ogden is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Ogden home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ogden residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Ogden also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 13.73% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Ogden include German, Irish, English, Italian, and French.

The most common language spoken in Ogden is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Occupations

With 4.8% of employed workers living in the neighborhood active in the military, this neighborhood has the distinction of having a higher proportion of people in the military than 98.6% of American neighborhoods. This is a major shaper of the neighborhood's culture and character.

People

With more than 2.0% of residents living with a same sex partner, is truly a neighborhood that stands out from the rest in this regard. In fact, exclusive analysis by NeighborhoodScout reveals that this neighborhood has a greater concentration of same sex couples than 96.9% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Real Estate

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 90.7% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Ogden are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 41.3% of the neighborhoods in America. With 26.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 77.5% 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, 41.0% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 31.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (13.5%), and 13.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 89.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Italian and Polish.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Ogden, KS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (21.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.5%), and residents who report English roots (10.0%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (7.1%), along with some Sub-Saharan African ancestry residents (4.5%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (44.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (81.5%) 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 (9.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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