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New Haven, KY

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Overview


New Haven is a tiny city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 807 people and just one neighborhood, New Haven is the 278th largest community in Kentucky.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in New Haven, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 41.62% of New Haven’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, New Haven is a city of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in New Haven who work in office and administrative support (18.21%), sales jobs (8.67%), and management occupations (7.80%).

Setting & Lifestyle

The overall crime rate in New Haven is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.

One downside of living in New Haven is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In New Haven, the average commute to work is 31.09 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Demographics

The citizens of New Haven are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 13.03% of adults in New Haven have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in New Haven in 2018 was $31,051, which is upper middle income relative to Kentucky, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $124,204 for a family of four. However, New Haven contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in New Haven is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Other Asian languages.

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.

Occupations

More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 95.0% 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.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scottish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 11.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Scottish ancestry.

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 New Haven are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 49.2% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 7.8% 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 56.5% of America'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, 41.6% 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 32.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.9%), and 8.2% 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 99.2% of households. Some people also speak Italian (4.2%).

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 New Haven, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (12.7%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (12.3%), and residents who report Scottish roots (11.3%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (5.7%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (1.2%), 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 (35.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (84.4%) 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 (7.8%) . 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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