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Mayking, KY

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Overview


Mayking is a tiny town located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 475 people and just one neighborhood, Mayking is the 330th largest community in Kentucky.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Mayking, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 41.30% of Mayking’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Mayking is a town of construction workers and builders, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mayking who work in healthcare (17.93%), sales jobs (15.76%), and management occupations (9.24%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

Mayking 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.

Demographics

The percentage of people in Mayking who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 28.99% of adults in Mayking have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Mayking in 2018 was $24,028, which is middle income relative to Kentucky, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $96,112 for a family of four. However, Mayking contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Mayking also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 41.37% of its population below the federal poverty line.

The people who call Mayking home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mayking residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Mayking include Scots-Irish, Irish, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, and West Indian.

The most common language spoken in Mayking is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and German/Yiddish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

One of the really interesting characteristics about the neighborhood is that, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research, it is an excellent choice in which to reside for college students. Due to its popularity among college students who already choose to live here, its walkability, and its above average safety from crime, the neighborhood is ideal for prospective or already-enrolled college students. Between semesters and during school breaks, you'll notice that the excitement here fluctuates with the college seasons. Despite the excitement however, parents of college-age children can rest easy knowing that this neighborhood has an above average safety rating. For each of these reasons, the neighborhood is rated among the top 4.1% of college-friendly places to live in the state of Kentucky. In addition to being an excellent choice for college students, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for active retirees.

Diversity

Significantly, 1.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.5% 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 Mayking are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 82.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 35.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 86.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.

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In the neighborhood, 36.2% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 25.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (19.2%), and 19.1% 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 96.7% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Mayking, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (15.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (6.5%), and residents who report German roots (4.6%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (2.4%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (1.1%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (43.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (72.5%) 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 (13.7%) and 6.5% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. 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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