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Wheelwright, KY

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Overview


Wheelwright is a tiny city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 472 people and just one neighborhood, Wheelwright is the 328th largest community in Kentucky.

Occupations and Workforce

Wheelwright is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 88.30% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Wheelwright is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Wheelwright who work in sales jobs (21.28%), office and administrative support (12.77%), and food service (9.04%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

One downside of living in Wheelwright, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 40.93 minutes every day commuting to work.

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

Demographics

The percentage of people in Wheelwright with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.69% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Wheelwright in 2022 was $15,961, which is low income relative to Kentucky and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $63,844 for a family of four. However, Wheelwright contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Wheelwright also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 35.02% of its population below the federal poverty line.

The people who call Wheelwright home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wheelwright residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Wheelwright include Irish, Scottish, German, English, and Other Subsaharan African.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Wheelwright, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Modes of Transportation

Our research reveals that 98.2% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 99.9% of U.S. neighborhoods.

People

One of the unique characteristics of the neighborhood revealed by analysis is that the per capita income of residents here is lower than that found in 98.6% of the neighborhoods in America.

Occupations

The government often provides some of the more stable jobs in the economy. From local, to state, to federal government workers, the government can also be a major employer. What NeighborhoodScout's analysis revealed, is that the neighborhood in particular stands out when compared nationally for the proportion of its working residents who are employed by the government. At 15.0% of its workforce, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of government workers than 97.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.

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 Wheelwright are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 98.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 18.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 66.3% 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, 33.9% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 29.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (27.8%), and 15.0% 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 97.8% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Wheelwright, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (6.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (5.5%), and residents who report German roots (3.5%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (3.2%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (2.0%), 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 (35.7% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (98.2%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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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