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Mount Olivet, KY

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Overview


Mount Olivet is a tiny city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 349 people and just one neighborhood, Mount Olivet is the 345th largest community in Kentucky.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities, Mount Olivet isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Mount Olivet are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Mount Olivet is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mount Olivet who work in office and administrative support (18.18%), healthcare suport services (15.91%), and sales jobs (9.09%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Mount Olivet’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.

One downside of living in Mount Olivet is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Mount Olivet, the average commute to work is 35.51 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Mount Olivet is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of Mount Olivet rank slightly lower than the national average. 14.29% of adults 25 and older in Mount Olivet have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.

The per capita income in Mount Olivet in 2018 was $14,908, which is low income relative to Kentucky and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $59,632 for a family of four. Mount Olivet also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 44.33% of its population below the federal poverty line.

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

The most common language spoken in Mount Olivet is English. Other important languages spoken here include Greek and Polish.

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

Modes of Transportation

Our research reveals that 92.1% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 97.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Occupations

More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 97.0% 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 22 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 94.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Significantly, 1.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.8% 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 Mount Olivet are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 68.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 26.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 76.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 44.6% 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 24.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.0%), and 13.9% 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 99.1% 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 Mount Olivet, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (15.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (6.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.7%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (2.6%), along with some Welsh ancestry residents (1.3%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (27.5% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (92.1%) 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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