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Wickliffe, KY

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Overview


Wickliffe is a tiny city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 658 people and just one neighborhood, Wickliffe is the 299th largest community in Kentucky.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Wickliffe is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 52.38% of the Wickliffe workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Wickliffe is a city of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Wickliffe who work in office and administrative support (11.90%), sales jobs (9.52%), and management occupations (8.57%).

Also of interest is that Wickliffe has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

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

Demographics

In Wickliffe, just 8.71% 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 Wickliffe in 2018 was $19,795, 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 $79,180 for a family of four. However, Wickliffe contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Wickliffe also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 30.93% of its population below the federal poverty line.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

Of particular note, 2.9% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.

Modes of Transportation

While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 90.6% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.0% of all American neighborhoods.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 34 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 92.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Wickliffe are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 73.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 40.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 89.6% 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, 34.6% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 24.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (20.2%), and 19.2% in executive, management, and professional occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.0% 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 Wickliffe, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (19.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.4%), and residents who report German roots (7.7%), and some of the residents are also of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (3.8%), along with some African ancestry residents (3.8%), 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 (38.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (90.6%) 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 (7.2%) . 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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