Loyall is a tiny city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 609 people and just one neighborhood, Loyall is the 308th largest community in Kentucky.
Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Loyall is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Loyall is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Loyall who work in sales jobs (18.75%), management occupations (11.36%), and teaching (10.23%).
The overall crime rate in Loyall is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
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!) Loyall 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. Loyall has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Loyall than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Loyall may be for you.
Residents of the city have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 16.17 minutes getting to work every day.
Being a small city, Loyall does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Loyall has a very low overall level of education: only 8.02% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Loyall in 2022 was $16,017, which is low income relative to Kentucky and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $64,068 for a family of four. Loyall also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 38.44% of its population below the federal poverty line.
The people who call Loyall home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Loyall residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Loyall include Irish, English, German, Scots-Irish, and French.
The most common language spoken in Loyall is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and African languages.
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.
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 Loyall are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 94.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 38.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 88.2% 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, 33.7% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 25.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (25.8%), and 14.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 100.0% of households.
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 Loyall, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (19.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.7%), and residents who report German roots (3.5%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (2.8%).
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 (47.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (83.4%) 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 (8.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.