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.
Loyall is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-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%).
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.
Being a small city, Loyall does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Loyall rank slightly lower than the national average. 13.19% of adults 25 and older in Loyall have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
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.
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 Loyall, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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 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.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
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.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.8% of households.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
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%).
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 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.