Summer Shade is a tiny town located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 294 people and just one neighborhood, Summer Shade is the 361st largest community in Kentucky.
Summer Shade is a blue-collar town, with 71.09% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Summer Shade is a town of construction workers and builders, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Summer Shade who work in healthcare suport services (21.09%), healthcare (7.81%), and office and administrative support (0.00%).
Summer Shade’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Summer Shade is worth considering.
One downside of living in Summer Shade is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Summer Shade, the average commute to work is 32.11 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small town, Summer Shade doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The rate of college-level education in Summer Shade is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 11.64% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Summer Shade in 2022 was $16,467, which is low income relative to Kentucky and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $65,868 for a family of four. Summer Shade also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 61.99% of its population below the federal poverty line.
The people who call Summer Shade home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Summer Shade residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Summer Shade include German, Irish, Dutch, French, and Yugoslavian.
The most common language spoken in Summer Shade is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.
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 Summer Shade, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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 45.1% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 97.2% of American neighborhoods.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 95.8% of all neighborhoods in America, with 32.3% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.
In addition, uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 40 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 91.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch and Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry and 3.0% have Scots-Irish ancestry.
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 Summer Shade are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 76.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 17.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 64.7% 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, 45.1% 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 21.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.9%), and 15.0% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.8% 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 Summer Shade, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (9.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (6.9%), and residents who report German roots (5.5%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (3.7%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (3.5%), among others.
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 (35.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (79.3%) 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 (14.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.