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Cloverport, KY

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Overview


Cloverport is a very small city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 1,136 people and just one neighborhood, Cloverport is the 246th largest community in Kentucky.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Cloverport, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 37.47% of Cloverport’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Cloverport is a city of production and manufacturing workers, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cloverport who work in office and administrative support (12.67%), food service (11.02%), and sales jobs (8.82%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

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, Cloverport is worth considering.

As is often the case in a small city, Cloverport doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The population of Cloverport has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 3.90% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Cloverport in 2018 was $17,742, which is low income relative to Kentucky and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $70,968 for a family of four. Cloverport also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 35.11% of its population below the federal poverty line.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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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 27 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 93.2% of America.

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 Cloverport are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 68.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 11.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 53.1% 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, 39.8% 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 25.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.6%), and 15.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.8% 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 Cloverport, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (15.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.4%), and residents who report German roots (4.8%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (1.6%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.4%), 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 neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (42.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (82.2%) 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 (11.6%) . 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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