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Smithfield, KY

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Overview


Smithfield is a tiny city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 122 people and just one neighborhood, Smithfield is the 400th largest community in Kentucky. Much of the housing stock in Smithfield was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic cities in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Smithfield is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 69.49% of the Smithfield workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Smithfield is a city of transportation and shipping workers, construction workers and builders, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Smithfield who work in healthcare suport services (8.47%), office and administrative support (6.78%), and teaching (6.78%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

Smithfield 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

Smithfield ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 2.63% of people over 25 have a college degree.

The per capita income in Smithfield in 2018 was $19,169, which is low income relative to Kentucky and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $76,676 for a family of four. However, Smithfield contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Smithfield is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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The Neighbors

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The neighbors in the neighborhood in Smithfield are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 49.9% of the neighborhoods in America. With 33.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 83.9% of U.S. neighborhoods.

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In the neighborhood, 32.9% 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 28.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (28.0%), and 9.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

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 Smithfield, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (13.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (12.5%), and residents who report German roots (10.2%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (4.2%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (3.4%), 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 (45.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (73.4%) 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 (9.3%) . 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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