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Dixon, KY

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Overview


Dixon is a tiny city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 911 people and just one neighborhood, Dixon is the 263rd largest community in Kentucky.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Dixon is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 51.47% of the Dixon workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Dixon is a city of construction workers and builders, production and manufacturing workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Dixon who work in office and administrative support (8.85%), food service (6.17%), and personal care services (4.56%).

Setting & Lifestyle

The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Dixon has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Dixon a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

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

Demographics

The citizens of Dixon have a very low rate of college education: just 6.11% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.

The per capita income in Dixon in 2022 was $19,886, 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 $79,544 for a family of four. However, Dixon contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

People

Of particular note, 9.3% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.

Modes of Transportation

While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 89.3% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.5% of all American neighborhoods.

Real Estate

Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 92.8% of the neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Canadian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.9% 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 96.0% of the neighborhoods in 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 Dixon are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 63.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 10.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 50.5% 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, 41.4% 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 25.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.5%), and 10.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.8% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Dixon, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (11.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.5%), and residents who report German roots (4.3%), and some of the residents are also of Canadian ancestry (1.5%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (1.4%), 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 (31.4% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (89.3%) 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 (5.4%) . 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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