Cave City is a very small city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 2,356 people and just one neighborhood, Cave City is the 176th largest community in Kentucky.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Cave City is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 36.45% of the Cave City workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Cave City is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cave City who work in sales jobs (15.09%), office and administrative support (14.91%), and management occupations (7.00%).
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, Cave City has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Cave City a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Cave City is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
Cave City ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 4.64% of people over 25 have a college degree.
The per capita income in Cave City in 2022 was $21,727, 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 $86,908 for a family of four. However, Cave City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Cave City also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 31.62% of its population below the federal poverty line.
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, French, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Cave City is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Cave City, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
The neighborhood is unique for having just 5.8% of adults here having earned a bachelor's degree. This is a lower rate of college graduates than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.4% of America's neighborhoods.
In addition, 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 95.5% 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 41.6% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 95.0% 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 95.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 50.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 94.3% 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, 41.6% 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 21.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (20.5%), and 16.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.3% of households. Some people also speak Polish (2.3%).
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
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 (11.6%), and residents who report German roots (4.9%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (4.2%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.3%), among others.
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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (50.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (83.2%) 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 (7.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.