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Horse Cave, KY

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Overview


Horse Cave is a very small city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 2,258 people and just one neighborhood, Horse Cave is the 184th largest community in Kentucky.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Horse Cave is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 45.63% of the Horse Cave workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Horse Cave is a city of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Horse Cave who work in office and administrative support (12.85%), healthcare (7.97%), and sales jobs (7.84%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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!) Horse Cave 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. Horse Cave has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Horse Cave than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Horse Cave may be for you.

As is often the case in a small city, Horse Cave doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The population of Horse Cave has a very low overall level of education: only 9.36% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Horse Cave in 2022 was $25,472, which is middle income relative to Kentucky, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $101,888 for a family of four. However, Horse Cave contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Horse Cave is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Horse Cave home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Horse Cave residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Horse Cave include English, Irish, German, African, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Horse Cave is English. Other important languages spoken here include French and German/Yiddish.

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.

Diversity

Significantly, 2.6% 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 97.6% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Horse Cave are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 89.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 41.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 90.4% 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, 35.6% 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 33.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (18.4%), and 12.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.2% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (2.6%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Horse Cave, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (16.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (7.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (5.8%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (3.8%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.5%), among others.

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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (52.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (83.8%) 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 (9.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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