Beechmont - Drakesboro is a very small town located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 3,662 people and just one neighborhood, Beechmont - Drakesboro is the 115th largest community in Kentucky.
Beechmont - Drakesboro is a blue-collar town, with 55.17% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Beechmont - Drakesboro is a town of production and manufacturing workers, transportation and shipping workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Beechmont - Drakesboro who work in healthcare (11.28%), sales jobs (7.05%), and office and administrative support (6.58%).
Also of interest is that Beechmont - Drakesboro has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
One downside of living in Beechmont - Drakesboro is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Beechmont - Drakesboro, the average commute to work is 30.61 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Beechmont - Drakesboro does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Beechmont - Drakesboro has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 3.37% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Beechmont - Drakesboro in 2022 was $21,057, which is lower middle income relative to Kentucky, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $84,228 for a family of four. However, Beechmont - Drakesboro contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Beechmont - Drakesboro home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Beechmont - Drakesboro residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Beechmont - Drakesboro include Irish, English, German, African, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Beechmont - Drakesboro is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and French.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Beechmont - Drakesboro, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 55.2% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 99.6% of American neighborhoods.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 94.2% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.2% of all American neighborhoods.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 96.6% of the adult residents in the neighborhood do not have a 4-year college degree, which is a lower rate of college graduated adults than found in 98.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Beechmont - Drakesboro are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 89.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 32.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 83.7% of U.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, 55.2% 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 23.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (14.3%), and 6.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.6% of households.
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 Beechmont - Drakesboro, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (13.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (8.1%), and residents who report German roots (6.8%), and some of the residents are also of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (1.1%), along with some African ancestry residents (1.1%), 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 (44.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (94.2%) 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 (5.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.