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Wheelwright, KY

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Overview


Wheelwright is a tiny city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 488 people and just one neighborhood, Wheelwright is the 328th largest community in Kentucky. Wheelwright has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities, Wheelwright isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Wheelwright are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Wheelwright is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Wheelwright who work in sales jobs (19.34%), office and administrative support (11.60%), and law enforcement and fire fighting (9.94%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

It is a fairly quiet city 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!) Wheelwright 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. Wheelwright has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Wheelwright than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Wheelwright may be for you.

One downside of living in Wheelwright is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Wheelwright, the average commute to work is 41.48 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Being a small city, Wheelwright does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

In Wheelwright, just 9.08% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Wheelwright in 2018 was $17,626, which is low income relative to Kentucky and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $70,504 for a family of four. However, Wheelwright contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Wheelwright also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 32.95% of its population below the federal poverty line.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Modes of Transportation

While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 97.5% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.8% of all American neighborhoods.

People

One of the unique characteristics of the neighborhood revealed by analysis is that the per capita income of residents here is lower than that found in 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 Wheelwright are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 98.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 18.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 66.7% 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, 33.4% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 32.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (25.3%), and 10.0% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 100.0% 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 Wheelwright, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (5.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (4.0%), and residents who report Scottish roots (3.1%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (2.4%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (2.3%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.3% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (97.5%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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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