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Paint Lick, KY

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Overview


Paint Lick is a very small town located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 3,281 people and just one neighborhood, Paint Lick is the 134th largest community in Kentucky.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Paint Lick is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 37.74% of the Paint Lick workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Paint Lick is a town of professionals, managers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Paint Lick who work in management occupations (15.45%), healthcare (13.06%), and sales jobs (8.44%).

A relatively large number of people in Paint Lick telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 9.62% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Paint Lick has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Paint Lick has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Paint Lick than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Paint Lick may be for you.

One downside of living in Paint Lick, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.88 minutes every day commuting to work.

As is often the case in a small town, Paint Lick doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The citizens of Paint Lick are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.99% of adults in Paint Lick have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Paint Lick in 2018 was $29,107, which is upper middle income relative to Kentucky, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $116,428 for a family of four. However, Paint Lick contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Paint Lick home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Paint Lick residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Paint Lick include German, English, Irish, European, and British.

The most common language spoken in Paint Lick is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.

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.

Car Ownership

We Americans love our cars. Not only are they a necessity for most Americans due to the shape of our neighborhoods and the distances between where we live, work, shop, and go to school, but we also fancy them. As a result, most households in America have one, two, or three cars. But NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis shows that the neighborhood has a highly unusual pattern of car ownership. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 34.8% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 96.0% of the neighborhoods in the nation.

Real Estate

This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 40 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 90.9% of America.

Diversity

Significantly, 3.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.5% 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 Paint Lick are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 67.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 14.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 59.4% 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, 37.7% 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 36.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.4%), and 8.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.7% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (3.6%).

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 Paint Lick, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (6.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (4.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (3.3%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (1.8%), along with some British 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (42.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (78.4%) 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 (11.5%) . 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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