Blaine is a tiny city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 68 people and just one neighborhood, Blaine is the 409th largest community in Kentucky.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Blaine is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 56.52% of the Blaine workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Blaine is a city of construction workers and builders, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Blaine who work in office and administrative support (26.09%), healthcare suport services (17.39%), and sales jobs (0.00%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 56.52% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
Blaine’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Blaine has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Blaine a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Blaine is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Blaine, the average commute to work is 57.00 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small city, Blaine does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Blaine is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 17.95% of adults 25 and older in Blaine have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Blaine in 2022 was $25,050, which is middle income relative to Kentucky, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $100,200 for a family of four. However, Blaine contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Blaine home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Blaine residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Blaine include Irish, German, English, French, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Blaine is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 50.7% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 99.0% of American neighborhoods.
The neighborhood is unique for having just 5.4% of adults here having earned a bachelor's degree. This is a lower rate of college graduates than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.1% of America's neighborhoods.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 96.6% of all neighborhoods in America, with 34.6% 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 18 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.1% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more English and Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 31.4% of this neighborhood's residents have English ancestry and 28.9% have Irish ancestry.
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 Blaine are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 89.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 44.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 91.9% 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, 50.7% 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 22.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.2%), and 9.0% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 100.0% of households.
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Blaine, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (31.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (28.9%), and residents who report German roots (6.7%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (1.2%).
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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (37.2% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (83.1%) 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 (6.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.