Campton is a tiny city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 303 people and just one neighborhood, Campton is the 353rd largest community in Kentucky.
Unlike some cities, Campton isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Campton are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Campton is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Campton who work in sales jobs (37.93%), maintenance occupations (10.34%), and community and social services (10.34%).
The city 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, Campton has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Campton a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Campton is a very car-oriented city. 96.55% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Campton is a small city , and most people who live here have to drive out of town for work, and the town population is not large nor dense enough to support an extensive public transportation system. Campton has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.
Being a small city, Campton does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Campton has a very low overall level of education: only 7.10% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Campton in 2022 was $12,166, which is low income relative to Kentucky and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $48,664 for a family of four. Campton also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 46.55% of its population below the federal poverty line.
The people who call Campton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Campton residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Campton include German, Irish, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, and West Indian.
The most common language spoken in Campton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and African languages.
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.
The neighborhood stands out for having an average per capita income lower than 99.3% of the neighborhoods in the United States.
In addition, neighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 93.6% of the adult residents in the neighborhood do not have a 4-year college degree, which is a lower rate of college graduated adults than found in 96.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
There are more people living in the neighborhood employed as sales and service workers (57.9%) than almost any neighborhood in the country. From fast-food service workers to major sales accounts, sales and service workers make up the largest proportion of our national employment picture. But despite that size and importance nationally, this neighborhood still stands out as unique due to the dominance of people living here who work in such occupations.
Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the (25.9%) than in 97.4% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 91.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.9% of this neighborhood's residents 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 Campton are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 99.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 33.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 84.9% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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In the neighborhood, 42.1% 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 executive, management, and professional occupations, with 26.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (20.7%), and 10.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.1% 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 Campton, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (14.3%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (7.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.2%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (2.9%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.4%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (29.1% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (70.8%) 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 (25.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.