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Kelly, WY

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Overview


Kelly is a tiny town located in the state of Wyoming. With a population of 127 people and just one neighborhood, Kelly is the 68th largest community in Wyoming.

Kelly home prices are not only among the most expensive in Wyoming, but Kelly real estate also consistently ranks among the most expensive in America.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Kelly, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 95.12% of Kelly’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Kelly is a town of transportation and shipping workers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Kelly who work in legal occupations (4.88%), office and administrative support (0.00%), and sales jobs (0.00%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Kelly has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Kelly a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

Residents of the town have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 7.50 minutes getting to work every day.

Being a small town, Kelly does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The population of Kelly has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 2.41% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Kelly in 2018 was $32,275, which is middle income relative to Wyoming, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $129,100 for a family of four.

Kelly is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Kelly home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Kelly residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Kelly include Norwegian, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, West Indian, and U.S. Virgin Islander.

The most common language spoken in Kelly is English. Other important languages spoken here include Slavic languages and Navajo.

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.

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 99.5% of the neighborhoods in America.

Modes of Transportation

In the neighborhood, walking to work is a real option for many. In fact, NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research reveals walking to and from work is the chosen way to commute for 18.9% of residents here. This is a higher proportion of walking commuters than we found in 98.0% of American neighborhoods. Get ready to put on your walking shoes if you move here!

People

If you are planning to retire in Wyoming, this neighborhood should be on your must-see list. For many reasons, may be considered a retiree's dream neighborhood. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and metrics, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety from crime compared to other neighborhoods in Wyoming, while also offering a diverse range of housing options. This, along with the vibrant mix of very educated seniors and other age groups who choose to live here, makes the neighborhood more retiree-friendly than 96.9% of neighborhoods in WY. If a Wyoming retirement is in your future, this neighborhood should be one of the places you visit. In addition to being an excellent choice for active retirees, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for highly educated executives.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Yugoslav and Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Yugoslav ancestry and 23.6% have Irish ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Japanese at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.9% 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 Kelly are wealthy, making it among the 15% highest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 91.9% of the neighborhoods in America. With 16.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 62.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 40.8% 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 29.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (14.8%), and 13.5% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 78.7% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (19.3%).

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 Kelly, WY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (23.6%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (17.8%), and residents who report Mexican roots (15.5%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (8.2%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (6.6%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (46.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (67.8%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also hop out the door and walk to work to get to work (18.9%) . 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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