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Ledbetter - Smithland, KY

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Overview


Ledbetter - Smithland is a very small town located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 3,379 people and just one neighborhood, Ledbetter - Smithland is the 121st largest community in Kentucky.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Ledbetter - Smithland, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 41.23% of Ledbetter - Smithland’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Ledbetter - Smithland is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ledbetter - Smithland who work in office and administrative support (10.24%), sales jobs (10.17%), and teaching (6.83%).

Also of interest is that Ledbetter - Smithland has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

The town 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, Ledbetter - Smithland has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Ledbetter - Smithland a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

Demographics

The percentage of people in Ledbetter - Smithland with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.88% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Ledbetter - Smithland in 2018 was $36,663, which is wealthy relative to Kentucky, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $146,652 for a family of four. However, Ledbetter - Smithland contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Ledbetter - Smithland is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and African languages.

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

Modes of Transportation

While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 90.4% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.8% of all American neighborhoods.

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 Ledbetter - Smithland are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 45.2% of the neighborhoods in America. With 36.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 86.9% 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 neighborhood, 41.0% 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 24.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.0%), and 14.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the 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 neighborhood in Ledbetter - Smithland, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (11.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (7.4%), and residents who report French roots (5.6%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (3.3%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (1.6%), 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 (60.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (90.4%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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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