Summer Shade is a tiny town located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 294 people and just one neighborhood, Summer Shade is the 361st largest community in Kentucky.
Summer Shade is a blue-collar town, with 69.44% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Summer Shade is a town of construction workers and builders, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Summer Shade who work in healthcare suport services (26.85%), healthcare (3.70%), and office and administrative support (0.00%).
Summer Shade’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Summer Shade is worth considering.
One downside of living in Summer Shade, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.50 minutes every day commuting to work.
Summer Shade is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The education level of Summer Shade citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 23.64% of adults in Summer Shade have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Summer Shade in 2018 was $19,541, 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 $78,164 for a family of four. Summer Shade also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 41.31% of its population below the federal poverty line.
The people who call Summer Shade home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Summer Shade residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Summer Shade include German, Scottish, French, Yugoslavian, and Other West Indian.
The most common language spoken in Summer Shade is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.
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.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 42.8% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 95.9% of American neighborhoods.
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 91.0% of America.
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 Summer Shade are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 76.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 12.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 54.0% of U.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, 42.8% 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 21.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.9%), and 14.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.4% of households.
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Summer Shade, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (7.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (6.5%), and residents who report German roots (4.2%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.3%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (2.6%), 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 (33.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (84.7%) 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.