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Ledbetter - Smithland, KY

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Overview


Ledbetter - Smithland is a very small town located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 3,353 people and just one neighborhood, Ledbetter - Smithland is the 121st largest community in Kentucky.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Ledbetter - Smithland is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 37.11% of the Ledbetter - Smithland workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Ledbetter - Smithland is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ledbetter - Smithland who work in sales jobs (11.60%), office and administrative support (8.38%), and management occupations (7.24%).

Also of interest is that Ledbetter - Smithland has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

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

Demographics

The citizens of Ledbetter - Smithland are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 13.81% of adults in Ledbetter - Smithland have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Ledbetter - Smithland in 2022 was $33,696, which is upper middle income relative to Kentucky, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $134,784 for a family of four. However, Ledbetter - Smithland contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Ledbetter - Smithland home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ledbetter - Smithland residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Ledbetter - Smithland include English, Irish, German, French, and European.

The most common language spoken in Ledbetter - Smithland is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

The neighborhood has a greater percentage of children living in poverty (54.4%) than found in 95.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods. Children living in poverty is one of the challenges facing America, and the world, and in this neighborhood in particular, the problem can be considered acute.

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 Ledbetter - Smithland are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 46.2% of the neighborhoods in America. With 54.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 95.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 36.8% 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 25.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.6%), and 12.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.3% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Ledbetter - Smithland, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (14.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (7.1%), and residents who report German roots (6.1%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (6.1%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (2.7%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (58.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (78.5%) 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 (12.2%) . 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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