Centertown is a tiny city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 414 people and just one neighborhood, Centertown is the 334th largest community in Kentucky.
When you are in Centertown, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 54.72% of Centertown’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Centertown is a city of production and manufacturing workers, transportation and shipping workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Centertown who work in sales jobs (9.43%), food service (7.55%), and management occupations (7.55%).
One downside of living in Centertown, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 30.45 minutes every day commuting to work.
Centertown 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.
The population of Centertown has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 5.86% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Centertown in 2022 was $22,198, 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 $88,792 for a family of four. However, Centertown contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Centertown also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 31.20% of its population below the federal poverty line.
The people who call Centertown home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Centertown residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Centertown include Irish, English, German, Scottish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Centertown is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.
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 Centertown, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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 95.3% of America. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
Significantly, 2.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.8% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Centertown are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 74.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 19.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 68.5% 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, 40.6% 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 30.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (15.7%), and 12.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.3% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (2.2%).
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 Centertown, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (8.0%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (7.7%), and residents who report English roots (4.6%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (1.5%).
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 (31.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (81.9%) 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 (12.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.