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Thelma, KY

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Overview


Thelma is a very small town located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 2,628 people and just one neighborhood, Thelma is the 156th largest community in Kentucky.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Thelma isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Thelma are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Thelma is a town of professionals, service providers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Thelma who work in food service (13.27%), management occupations (12.21%), and healthcare (11.78%).

And if you like science, one thing you'll find is that Thelma has lots of scientists living in town - whether they be life scientists, physical scientists (like astronomers), or social scientists (like geographers!). So, if you're scientific-minded, you might like it here too.

Also of interest is that Thelma has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

Overall, Thelma’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

It is a fairly quiet town 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!) Thelma 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. Thelma has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Thelma than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Thelma may be for you.

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

Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of Thelma rank slightly lower than the national average. 14.46% of adults 25 and older in Thelma 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 Thelma in 2018 was $22,356, 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 $89,424 for a family of four. However, Thelma contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Thelma home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Thelma residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Thelma include English, Irish, German, Scottish, and European.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Modes of Transportation

While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 92.2% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.3% of all American 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 Thelma are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 68.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 29.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 80.6% 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, 42.7% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 28.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (18.2%), and 11.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.3% 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 Thelma, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (20.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.6%), and residents who report German roots (9.0%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (2.8%), along with some Asian 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (50.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (92.2%) 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 (7.8%) . 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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