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Perryville, KY

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Overview


Perryville is a tiny city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 792 people and just one neighborhood, Perryville is the 280th largest community in Kentucky. Perryville has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Perryville is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 85.96% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Perryville is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Perryville who work in office and administrative support (34.96%), sales jobs (12.32%), and food service (8.31%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Perryville is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Perryville a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The city’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Perryville has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Perryville’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.

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

Demographics

The population of Perryville is very well educated relative to most cities and towns in the nation, where the average community has 21.84% of its adult population holding a 4-year degree or higher: 35.05% of adults in Perryville have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Perryville in 2022 was $29,114, 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 $116,456 for a family of four. However, Perryville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Perryville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Perryville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Perryville include Irish, German, French, English, and Dutch.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

The neighborhood is a great option for families, as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's research on this neighborhood. The combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes, make this neighborhood among the top 6.7% of family-friendly neighborhoods in the state of Kentucky. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a sense of community. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools. In addition to being an excellent choice for families with school-aged children, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for active retirees.

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 Perryville are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 41.9% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 6.5% 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 59.5% 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, 39.5% 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 28.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.8%), and 13.8% 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 99.7% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Perryville, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (13.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.1%), and residents who report German roots (10.2%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (1.9%), along with some Sub-Saharan African ancestry residents (1.7%), 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 (50.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (79.3%) 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 (5.4%) . 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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