Auxier is a tiny town located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 715 people and just one neighborhood, Auxier is the 295th largest community in Kentucky.
Auxier is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 91.39% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Auxier is a town of managers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Auxier who work in business and financial occupations (36.20%), healthcare (18.69%), and office and administrative support (13.35%).
Overall, Auxier’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, Auxier has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Auxier a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Auxier is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
In terms of college education, Auxier is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 20.97% of adults 25 and older in Auxier have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Auxier in 2022 was $38,193, which is wealthy relative to Kentucky, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $152,772 for a family of four. However, Auxier contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Auxier home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Auxier residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Auxier include English, Irish, German, French, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Auxier is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Serbo-Croatian.
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 Auxier, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
The neighborhood stands out within Kentucky for its college student friendly environment. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that this neighborhood is home to a number of college students, is relatively walkable, and above average in safety. In combination, this makes it stand out for a good place for college students to consider. Because a number of college students live here, this neighborhood may be close to a college campus and offer certain amenities nearby geared towards the student body. While it's not an environment for everyone, ambitious scholars can enjoy seasonal excitement between semesters and school breaks, and parents can rest easy knowing that the area has an above average safety rating. For each of these reasons, the neighborhood is rated among the top 7.3% of college-friendly places to live in KY.
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 Auxier are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 73.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 46.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 92.7% 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, 48.2% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 18.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.3%), and 15.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.5% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.2%).
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 Auxier, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (17.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (11.5%), and residents who report German roots (6.9%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (1.4%), along with some French ancestry residents (1.1%), among others.
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 (43.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (88.6%) 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 (7.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.