Medicine Lodge is a very small city located in the state of Kansas. With a population of 1,707 people and just one neighborhood, Medicine Lodge is the 187th largest community in Kansas.
Unlike some cities, Medicine Lodge isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Medicine Lodge are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Medicine Lodge is a city of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Medicine Lodge who work in management occupations (12.42%), healthcare suport services (11.00%), and office and administrative support (10.87%).
Residents of the city have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 16.76 minutes getting to work every day.
The population of Medicine Lodge overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Medicine Lodge, 23.92% have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Medicine Lodge in 2022 was $33,207, which is middle income relative to Kansas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $132,828 for a family of four. However, Medicine Lodge contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Medicine Lodge home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Medicine Lodge residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Medicine Lodge include German, Irish, English, Dutch, and Norwegian.
The most common language spoken in Medicine Lodge is English. Other important languages spoken here include Vietnamese and Spanish.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
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 6 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 98.1% of America.
Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. Residents of the neighborhood have the pleasure of having one of the shortest commutes to work of any neighborhood in America. 64.1% of the residents have a commute time from home to work (one way) of less than fifteen minutes. This is a higher proportion of residents enjoying a short trip to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. Less time commuting means more time for other things in life.
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 Medicine Lodge are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 72.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 38.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 88.5% 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, 32.5% 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 30.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (21.0%), and 13.1% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.3% of households.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Medicine Lodge, KS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (22.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.0%), and residents who report English roots (12.1%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (7.5%), along with some Native American ancestry residents (1.5%), 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 (64.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (85.1%) 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.