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Cornettsville, KY

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Overview


Cornettsville is a very small town located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 1,513 people and just one neighborhood, Cornettsville is the 223rd largest community in Kentucky.

Occupations and Workforce

Cornettsville is a blue-collar town, with 35.53% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Cornettsville is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Cornettsville who work in healthcare suport services (13.16%), office and administrative support (12.41%), and art, media, and design (10.90%).

There are many members of the armed forces living in Cornettsville. You will notice when you visit or live here that some of the people you meet or see around town are employed by the armed services - even if they are not always in uniform.

Of important note, Cornettsville is also a town of artists. Cornettsville has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Cornettsville’s character.

Setting & Lifestyle

Overall, Cornettsville’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, Cornettsville has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Cornettsville a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One downside of living in Cornettsville, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 39.37 minutes every day commuting to work.

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

Demographics

In terms of college education, Cornettsville ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 3.45% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Cornettsville in 2022 was $28,958, which is upper middle income relative to Kentucky, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $115,832 for a family of four. However, Cornettsville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Cornettsville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cornettsville residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Cornettsville include English, German, Irish, Scots-Irish, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Cornettsville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and African languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Cornettsville, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Real Estate

The neighborhood stands out for having the majority of its residential real estate made up of mobile homes. In fact, 65.9% of the occupied real estate here are mobile homes, which is a greater proportion than is found in 99.8% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. If you like mobile homes, this might be a great neighborhood in which to look for real estate.

In addition, 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 92.9% of the neighborhoods in America.

Modes of Transportation

In the neighborhood, carpooling is still a popular way to get to and from work. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that 30.9% of commuters carpool here, which is more than in 98.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

People

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 96.5% 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 98.2% of the neighborhoods in America.

Occupations

With 3.7% of employed workers living in the neighborhood active in the military, this neighborhood has the distinction of having a higher proportion of people in the military than 98.0% of American neighborhoods. This is a major shaper of the neighborhood's culture and character.

Migration / Stability

Do you like to be surrounded by people from all over the country or world, with different perspectives and life experiences? Or do you instead prefer to be in a neighborhood where most residents have lived there for a long time, creating a sense of cohesiveness? NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that this neighborhood stands out among American neighborhoods for the uniqueness of the mobility of its residents. More residents of the neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 97.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. This neighborhood is really made up of people who know each other, don't move often, and have lived here in this very neighborhood for quite a while.

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 Cornettsville are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 87.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 28.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 79.9% 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, 35.5% 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 28.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (25.6%), and 10.5% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 100.0% 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 Cornettsville, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (3.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (3.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (1.8%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (1.4%).

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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (39.9% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (64.1%) 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 (30.9%) . 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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