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Summer Shade, KY

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Overview


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.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Summer Shade is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 71.09% of the Summer Shade workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 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 (21.09%), healthcare (7.81%), and office and administrative support (0.00%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Overall, Summer Shade’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

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.

In Summer Shade, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 32.11 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Being a small town, Summer Shade does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

In Summer Shade, just 11.64% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.

The per capita income in Summer Shade in 2018 was $16,467, which is low income relative to Kentucky and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $65,868 for a family of four. Summer Shade also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 61.99% 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, Irish, Dutch, French, and Yugoslavian.

The most common language spoken in Summer Shade is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

Occupations

More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 97.2% 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.

Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 95.8% of all neighborhoods in America, with 32.3% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.

In addition, 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.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch and Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry and 3.0% have Scots-Irish ancestry.

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 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 76.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 17.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 64.7% 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, 45.1% 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 21.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.9%), and 15.0% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.8% of households.

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 Summer Shade, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (9.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (6.9%), and residents who report German roots (5.5%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (3.7%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (3.5%), among others.

Getting to Work

How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (35.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (79.3%) 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 (14.4%) . 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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