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Real Estate Prices & Overview

Athol / Canyon Falls median real estate price is $93,557, which is less expensive than 90.1% of Kentucky neighborhoods and 94.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

The average rental price in Athol / Canyon Falls is currently $1,029, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 92.5% of Kentucky neighborhoods.

Athol / Canyon Falls is a rural neighborhood (based on population density) located in Beattyville, Kentucky.

Athol / Canyon Falls real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two bedroom) single-family homes and mobile homes. Most of the residential real estate is owner occupied. Many of the residences in the Athol / Canyon Falls neighborhood are established but not old, having been built between 1970 and 1999. A number of residences were also built between 1940 and 1969.

Vacant apartments or homes are a major fact of life in Athol / Canyon Falls. The current real estate vacancy rate here is 19.2%. This is higher than the rate of vacancies in 84.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, most vacant housing here is vacant year round. This can sometimes be the case in neighborhoods dominated by new construction that is not yet occupied. But often neighborhoods with vacancy rates this high are places that can be plagued by a protracted vacancy problem. If you live here, you may find that a number of buildings in your neighborhood are actually empty.

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 Beattyville, the Athol / Canyon Falls neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Length of Commute

Whether walking, biking, riding, or driving, the length of one's commute is an important factor for one's quality of life. The Athol / Canyon Falls neighborhood stands out for its commute length, according to NeighborhoodScout's analysis. Long commutes can be brutal. They take time, money, and energy, leaving less of you for yourself and your family. The residents of the Athol / Canyon Falls neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 36.2% of commuters here travel more than one hour just one-way to work. That is more than two hours per day. This percentage with two-hour + round-trip commutes is higher than NeighborhoodScout found in 100.0% of all neighborhoods in America.

Car Ownership

We Americans love our cars. Not only are they a necessity for most Americans due to the shape of our neighborhoods and the distances between where we live, work, shop, and go to school, but we also fancy them. As a result, most households in America have one, two, or three cars. But NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis shows that the Athol / Canyon Falls neighborhood has a highly unusual pattern of car ownership. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 47.4% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 99.5% of the neighborhoods in the nation.

People

The Athol / Canyon Falls neighborhood stands out for having an average per capita income lower than 98.2% of the neighborhoods in the United States.

Modes of Transportation

In the Athol / Canyon Falls neighborhood, carpooling is still a popular way to get to and from work. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that 24.5% of commuters carpool here, which is more than in 96.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Real Estate

This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 24 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 93.9% of America.

Diversity

Did you know that the Athol / Canyon Falls neighborhood has more English and Welsh ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 27.1% of this neighborhood's residents have English ancestry and 3.8% have Welsh ancestry.

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 Athol / Canyon Falls neighborhood in Beattyville are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 98.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 31.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 81.7% 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 Athol / Canyon Falls neighborhood, 40.5% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 29.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (13.6%), and 13.5% in executive, management, and professional occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the Athol / Canyon Falls neighborhood is English, spoken by 100.0% 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 Athol / Canyon Falls neighborhood in Beattyville, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (27.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (7.0%), and residents who report German roots (6.3%), and some of the residents are also of Welsh ancestry (3.8%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (3.8%), among others.

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 Athol / Canyon Falls neighborhood spend longer than one hour commuting one-way to work (36.2% of working residents), one of the longer commutes in America, which is a potential downside for residents of this neighborhood.

Here most residents (70.6%) 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 (24.5%) . 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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