Nortonville - White Plains is a very small town located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 4,803 people and just one neighborhood, Nortonville - White Plains is the 90th largest community in Kentucky.
When you are in Nortonville - White Plains, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 45.09% of Nortonville - White Plains’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Nortonville - White Plains is a town of professionals, construction workers and builders, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Nortonville - White Plains who work in teaching (10.27%), healthcare (9.58%), and office and administrative support (6.96%).
Nortonville - White Plains’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
Being a small town, Nortonville - White Plains does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of people in Nortonville - White Plains with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 12.18% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Nortonville - White Plains in 2022 was $28,850, 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 $115,400 for a family of four. However, Nortonville - White Plains contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Nortonville - White Plains home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Nortonville - White Plains residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Nortonville - White Plains include English, Irish, German, European, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Nortonville - White Plains is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.
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 Nortonville - White Plains, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 97.3% 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.
Our research reveals that 89.8% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 97.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Nortonville - White Plains are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 80.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 23.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 74.2% 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, 44.9% 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 31.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (13.7%), and 10.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.3% of households.
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 Nortonville - White Plains, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (14.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.8%), and residents who report German roots (4.4%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (1.7%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (1.2%), among others.
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 (50.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (89.8%) 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 (5.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.