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Blackey, KY

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Overview


Blackey is a tiny city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 100 people and just one neighborhood, Blackey is the 404th largest community in Kentucky. Blackey has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities.

Occupations and Workforce

Blackey is a blue-collar town, with 63.64% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Blackey is a city of farmers, fishers, or foresters, transportation and shipping workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Blackey who work in farm management occupations (31.82%), maintenance occupations (18.18%), and teaching (18.18%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Blackey’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.

The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Blackey has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Blackey a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

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

Demographics

The overall education level of Blackey is somewhat higher than in the average US city of 21.84%: 25.97% of adults 25 and older in the city have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Blackey in 2022 was $15,547, which is low income relative to Kentucky and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $62,188 for a family of four. Blackey also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 55.24% of its population below the federal poverty line.

The people who call Blackey home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Blackey residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Blackey include German, Scottish, English, Scots-Irish, and Yugoslavian.

The most common language spoken in Blackey is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and German/Yiddish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Modes of Transportation

Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the (25.7%) than in 97.4% of the neighborhoods in America.

Real Estate

Despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 30.8%, which is higher than 95.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

In addition, 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 93.5% of the neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Eastern European ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Eastern European ancestry.

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 Blackey are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 76.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 8.1% 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 55.5% 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, 38.1% 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 37.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (12.1%), and 11.6% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 100.0% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.2%).

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 Blackey, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (10.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (7.2%), and residents who report English roots (6.6%), and some of the residents are also of Eastern European ancestry (3.1%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.4%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (30.3% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (52.0%) 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 (25.7%) and 8.7% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. 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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