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Ashcamp is a very small town located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 1,726 people and just one neighborhood, Ashcamp is the 200th largest community in Kentucky.
Occupations and Workforce
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Ashcamp is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 39.52% of the Ashcamp workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Ashcamp is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Ashcamp who work in office and administrative support (11.45%), healthcare (11.23%), and community and social services (8.86%).
Setting & Lifestyle
Overall, Ashcamp’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, Ashcamp is worth considering.
One downside of living in Ashcamp is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Ashcamp, the average commute to work is 37.30 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Ashcamp 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
In Ashcamp, just 7.95% 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 Ashcamp in 2022 was $22,222, 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 $88,888 for a family of four. However, Ashcamp contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Ashcamp home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ashcamp residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Ashcamp include Irish, English, French, Dutch, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Ashcamp is English. Other important languages spoken here include French and Polish.
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.
Real Estate
The neighborhood stands out for having the majority of its residential real estate made up of mobile homes. In fact, 57.7% of the occupied real estate here are mobile homes, which is a greater proportion than is found in 99.5% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. If you like mobile homes, this might be a great neighborhood in which to look for real estate.
Modes of Transportation
Our research reveals that 92.5% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 98.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Ashcamp are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 94.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 28.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 80.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 38.4% 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 29.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.6%), and 14.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.3% 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 Ashcamp, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (10.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.7%), and residents who report French roots (2.2%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (2.0%).
Getting to Work
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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.5% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (92.5%) 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 (5.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
