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Loyall, KY

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Overview


Loyall is a tiny city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 599 people and just one neighborhood, Loyall is the 308th largest community in Kentucky.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities, Loyall isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Loyall are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Loyall is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Loyall who work in sales jobs (20.16%), teaching (10.08%), and management occupations (9.30%).

Setting & Lifestyle

The overall crime rate in Loyall is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.

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, Loyall has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Loyall a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

Loyall is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The citizens of Loyall are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 13.19% of adults in Loyall have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Loyall in 2022 was $17,516, which is low income relative to Kentucky and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $70,064 for a family of four. Loyall also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 37.70% of its population below the federal poverty line.

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

The most common language spoken in Loyall is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and African languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Loyall are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 90.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 30.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 82.5% 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, 32.7% 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 29.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.4%), and 14.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.8% of households.

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 Loyall, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (19.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.2%), and residents who report German roots (3.4%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (1.8%).

Getting to Work

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 (39.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (79.7%) 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 (16.0%) . 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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