Cave City is a very small city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 2,360 people and just one neighborhood, Cave City is the 176th largest community in Kentucky.
When you are in Cave City, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 35.30% of Cave City’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Cave City is a city of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cave City who work in office and administrative support (12.98%), sales jobs (11.11%), and management occupations (9.93%).
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!) Cave City 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. Cave City has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Cave City than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Cave City may be for you.
As is often the case in a small city, Cave City doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In terms of college education, Cave City ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 5.87% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Cave City in 2022 was $21,878, 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 $87,512 for a family of four. However, Cave City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Cave City is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Cave City home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cave City residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Cave City include English, Irish, German, Scots-Irish, and French.
The most common language spoken in Cave City is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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.
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 96.8% of the neighborhoods in America.
In addition, neighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 93.4% of the adult residents in the neighborhood do not have a 4-year college degree, which is a lower rate of college graduated adults than found in 96.0% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 42.5% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 95.9% of American neighborhoods.
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 Cave City are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 96.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 38.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 88.4% 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, 42.5% 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 26.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.1%), and 11.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.0% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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 Cave City, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (12.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (11.0%), and residents who report German roots (4.5%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (4.0%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (3.2%), among others.
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 (45.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (79.0%) 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 (10.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.