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Bonnieville, KY

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Overview


Bonnieville is a tiny city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 271 people and just one neighborhood, Bonnieville is the 368th largest community in Kentucky.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Bonnieville, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 51.39% of Bonnieville’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Bonnieville is a city of production and manufacturing workers, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bonnieville who work in healthcare suport services (12.50%), sales jobs (11.11%), and office and administrative support (8.33%).

Setting & Lifestyle

The overall crime rate in Bonnieville 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.

Residents will find that the city is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Bonnieville is worth considering.

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

Demographics

In terms of college education, Bonnieville ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 5.37% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Bonnieville in 2018 was $15,376, which is low income relative to Kentucky and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $61,504 for a family of four. However, Bonnieville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Bonnieville also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 34.47% of its population below the federal poverty line.

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

The most common language spoken in Bonnieville is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and African languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Occupations

More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 96.0% of the neighborhoods in America. Despite the loss of manufacturing jobs across the nation, this neighborhood remains a place where, compared to other parts of the country, you will find many laborers and manufacturers.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 41 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 90.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Significantly, 4.7% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.0% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Bonnieville are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 94.7% 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 82.4% 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, 43.1% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 26.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (18.6%), and 11.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.5% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (4.7%).

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 Bonnieville, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (14.0%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (9.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.0%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (2.0%).

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 neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (31.4% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (76.0%) 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 (20.6%) . 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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