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Lebanon Junction, KY

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Overview


Lebanon Junction is a very small city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 1,795 people and just one neighborhood, Lebanon Junction is the 209th largest community in Kentucky.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Lebanon Junction is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 50.54% of the Lebanon Junction workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Lebanon Junction is a city of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lebanon Junction who work in office and administrative support (16.91%), sales jobs (8.70%), and management occupations (7.62%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

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, Lebanon Junction has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Lebanon Junction 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, Lebanon Junction doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

In Lebanon Junction, just 9.53% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Lebanon Junction in 2022 was $26,854, which is middle income relative to Kentucky, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $107,416 for a family of four. However, Lebanon Junction contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Lebanon Junction is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Persian.

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 Lebanon Junction, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Occupations

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 47.0% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 98.1% of American neighborhoods.

Real Estate

One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.

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 Lebanon Junction are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 65.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 5.2% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 63.5% of America'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, 47.0% 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 20.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (18.1%), and 12.6% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.3% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Lebanon Junction, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (16.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (16.4%), and residents who report German roots (15.5%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (1.9%), along with some French ancestry residents (1.5%), 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 (37.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (80.3%) 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 (13.6%) . 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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