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Wingo, KY

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Overview


Wingo is a tiny city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 578 people and just one neighborhood, Wingo is the 319th largest community in Kentucky.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Wingo, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 53.46% of Wingo’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Wingo is a city of transportation and shipping workers, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Wingo who work in sales jobs (11.92%), office and administrative support (7.31%), and healthcare (5.00%).

Setting & Lifestyle

The overall crime rate in Wingo 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.

Wingo 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

In Wingo, just 12.35% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.

The per capita income in Wingo in 2022 was $23,691, 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 $94,764 for a family of four. However, Wingo contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

Modes of Transportation

Our research reveals that 89.0% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 96.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Occupations

Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 95.1% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

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 91.5% 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 Wingo are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 80.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 41.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 90.3% 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, 39.1% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 23.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (19.4%), and 14.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.6% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Wingo, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (15.4%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (5.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (5.3%), and some of the residents are also of Puerto Rican ancestry (2.4%), along with some French ancestry residents (1.6%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (47.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (89.0%) 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 (6.3%) . 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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