Mount Hope - Bentley is a very small town located in the state of Kansas. With a population of 2,253 people and just one neighborhood, Mount Hope - Bentley is the 160th largest community in Kansas.
Unlike some towns, Mount Hope - Bentley isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Mount Hope - Bentley are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Mount Hope - Bentley is a town of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mount Hope - Bentley who work in office and administrative support (14.62%), maintenance occupations (14.17%), and healthcare (8.94%).
There are many members of the armed forces living in Mount Hope - Bentley. You will notice when you visit or live here that some of the people you meet or see around town are employed by the armed services - even if they are not always in uniform.
A relatively large number of people in Mount Hope - Bentley telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 11.83% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
Mount Hope - Bentley is a good choice for families with children because of several factors. Many other families with children live here, making it a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic success. Many people own their own single-family homes, providing areas for children to play and stability in the community. Finally, Mount Hope - Bentley’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.
Being a small town, Mount Hope - Bentley does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Mount Hope - Bentley are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 24.42% of adults in Mount Hope - Bentley having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Mount Hope - Bentley in 2022 was $33,648, which is middle income relative to Kansas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $134,592 for a family of four. However, Mount Hope - Bentley contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Mount Hope - Bentley is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Mount Hope - Bentley home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mount Hope - Bentley residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Mount Hope - Bentley also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 15.38% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Mount Hope - Bentley include German, English, Irish, Italian, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Mount Hope - Bentley is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Vietnamese.
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.
The neighborhood stands out nationally for having a greater proportion of its residents active in the military than 96.3% of other U.S. neighborhoods. If you come here, you will notice military people active in their jobs, going to and from work, and in plain clothes out and about the neighborhood.
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 92.6% of the neighborhoods in America.
The neighborhood is a great option for families, as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's research on this neighborhood. The combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes, make this neighborhood among the top 9.8% of family-friendly neighborhoods in the state of Kansas. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a sense of community. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools.
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 Mount Hope - Bentley are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 62.8% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.0% 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 71.1% of America's neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
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 sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 26.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (20.8%), and 18.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 86.2% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (11.8%).
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 Mount Hope - Bentley, KS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (27.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (16.0%), and residents who report Mexican roots (13.7%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (8.3%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (4.4%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (46.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (70.6%) 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 (16.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.