Horse Cave is a very small city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 2,258 people and just one neighborhood, Horse Cave is the 184th largest community in Kentucky.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Horse Cave is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 45.63% of the Horse Cave workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Horse Cave is a city of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Horse Cave who work in office and administrative support (12.85%), healthcare (7.97%), and sales jobs (7.84%).
It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Horse Cave has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Horse Cave has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Horse Cave than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Horse Cave may be for you.
As is often the case in a small city, Horse Cave doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The population of Horse Cave has a very low overall level of education: only 9.36% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Horse Cave in 2022 was $25,472, which is middle income relative to Kentucky, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $101,888 for a family of four. However, Horse Cave contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Horse Cave is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Horse Cave home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Horse Cave residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Horse Cave include English, Irish, German, African, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Horse Cave is English. Other important languages spoken here include French and German/Yiddish.
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.
Significantly, 2.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.6% 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 Horse Cave are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 89.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 41.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 90.4% 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, 35.6% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 33.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (18.4%), and 12.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.2% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (2.6%).
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Horse Cave, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (16.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (7.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (5.8%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (3.8%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.5%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (52.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (83.8%) 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 (9.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.