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Junction City, KY

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Overview


Junction City is a very small city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 2,290 people and just one neighborhood, Junction City is the 179th largest community in Kentucky.

Occupations and Workforce

Junction City is a blue-collar town, with 42.91% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Junction City is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Junction City who work in sales jobs (12.08%), office and administrative support (11.02%), and business and financial occupations (7.27%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Junction City with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 13.80% of adults in Junction City have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Junction City in 2018 was $19,855, which is lower middle income relative to Kentucky, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $79,420 for a family of four. However, Junction City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Junction City also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 30.75% of its population below the federal poverty line.

Junction City is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Junction City home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Junction City residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Junction City include English, German, Irish, Dutch, and French.

The most common language spoken in Junction City is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

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.

Occupations

It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 4.4% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 96.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.

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 Junction City are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 78.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 19.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 68.1% of U.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, 38.9% 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 20.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.8%), and 16.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.6%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Junction City, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (10.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.2%), and residents who report German roots (9.0%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (2.7%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (2.5%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (29.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (86.0%) 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 (6.9%) . 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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