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Livingston, KY

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Overview


Livingston is a tiny city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 165 people and just one neighborhood, Livingston is the 396th largest community in Kentucky.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities, Livingston isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Livingston are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Livingston is a city of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Livingston who work in office and administrative support (20.93%), sales jobs (16.28%), and maintenance occupations (11.63%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Overall, Livingston’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

One downside of living in Livingston, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 38.20 minutes every day commuting to work.

Livingston 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.

Demographics

Livingston ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 4.46% of people over 25 have a college degree.

The per capita income in Livingston in 2022 was $18,039, which is low income relative to Kentucky and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $72,156 for a family of four. Livingston also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 36.13% of its population below the federal poverty line.

The people who call Livingston home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Livingston residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Livingston include European, German, Scottish, French, and Eastern European.

The most common language spoken in Livingston is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.

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.

Modes of Transportation

While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 90.0% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.2% of all American neighborhoods.

Occupations

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 44.6% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 97.1% of American neighborhoods.

People

The neighborhood is unique for having just 6.5% of adults here having earned a bachelor's degree. This is a lower rate of college graduates than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.1% 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 95.6% of the neighborhoods in America.

Real Estate

Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 93.4% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Livingston are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 95.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 46.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 92.8% 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, 44.6% 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 19.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (18.6%), and 17.8% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.8% of households. Some people also speak Italian (4.1%).

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 Livingston, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (16.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (4.8%), and residents who report German roots (2.4%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (1.2%).

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 between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (38.7% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (90.0%) 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 (9.2%) . 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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