Pleasureville is a tiny city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 786 people and just one neighborhood, Pleasureville is the 282nd largest community in Kentucky. Pleasureville has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities.
Pleasureville is a blue-collar town, with 49.68% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Pleasureville is a city of service providers, production and manufacturing workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Pleasureville who work in healthcare suport services (13.74%), office and administrative support (8.47%), and maintenance occupations (8.47%).
Overall, Pleasureville’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
One downside of living in Pleasureville, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 30.80 minutes every day commuting to work.
Pleasureville 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.
In terms of college education, Pleasureville ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 4.01% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Pleasureville in 2018 was $20,222, which is lower middle income relative to Kentucky, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $80,888 for a family of four. However, Pleasureville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Pleasureville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pleasureville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Pleasureville include English, Irish, German, Scottish, and Scandinavian.
The most common language spoken in Pleasureville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Pleasureville, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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 29 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 92.9% of America.
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 Pleasureville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 72.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 10.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 50.2% 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, 33.4% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 23.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (21.0%), and 19.3% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.7% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.3%).
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 Pleasureville, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (16.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.1%), and residents who report German roots (5.8%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (2.7%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (2.5%), 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 (33.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (81.4%) 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 (10.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.