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Munfordville is a very small city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 1,701 people and just one neighborhood, Munfordville is the 214th largest community in Kentucky.
Occupations and Workforce
Munfordville is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Munfordville is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Munfordville who work in food service (19.11%), maintenance occupations (12.44%), and sales jobs (8.59%).
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!) Munfordville 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. Munfordville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Munfordville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Munfordville may be for you.
Demographics
The percentage of people in Munfordville with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.40% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Munfordville in 2022 was $22,628, 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 $90,512 for a family of four. Munfordville also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 36.27% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Munfordville is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Munfordville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Munfordville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Munfordville include German, Irish, English, Scottish, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Munfordville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Chinese and Polish.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
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 Munfordville, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
People
Of particular note, 3.8% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.
Diversity
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 10.4% 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 99.6% 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 Munfordville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 82.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 33.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 84.2% 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, 33.0% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 30.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (26.5%), and 8.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 88.2% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (10.4%).
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 Munfordville, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (15.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.4%), and residents who report English roots (8.0%), and some of the residents are also of Swiss ancestry (3.2%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.2%), 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 (43.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (75.2%) 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 (21.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
