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La Center - Kevil is a very small town located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 3,903 people and just one neighborhood, La Center - Kevil is the 104th largest community in Kentucky.
Occupations and Workforce
Unlike some towns, La Center - Kevil isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in La Center - Kevil are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, La Center - Kevil is a town of managers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in La Center - Kevil who work in management occupations (17.38%), healthcare (12.34%), and office and administrative support (11.74%).
Setting & Lifestyle
La Center - Kevil 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.
Demographics
The citizens of La Center - Kevil are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 23.34% of adults in La Center - Kevil having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in La Center - Kevil in 2022 was $31,400, which is upper middle income relative to Kentucky, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $125,600 for a family of four. However, La Center - Kevil contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call La Center - Kevil home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of La Center - Kevil residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in La Center - Kevil include English, Irish, German, European, and French.
The most common language spoken in La Center - Kevil is English. Other important languages spoken here include Greek and Spanish.
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
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 91.6% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.9% of all American neighborhoods.
Real Estate
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 34 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 91.9% of America.
Diversity
Did you know that the neighborhood has more English ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 23.6% of this neighborhood's residents have English ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.3% 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 La Center - Kevil are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 69.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 9.0% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 53.3% of America'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, 40.4% 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 24.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.0%), and 13.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 90.4% 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 La Center - Kevil, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (23.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.1%), and residents who report German roots (6.9%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (2.7%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.1%), 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 (33.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (91.6%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
