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Pleasureville, KY

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Overview


Pleasureville is a tiny city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 797 people and just one neighborhood, Pleasureville is the 282nd largest community in Kentucky. Much of the housing stock in Pleasureville was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic cities in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Pleasureville is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 42.57% of the Pleasureville workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Pleasureville is a city of service providers, production and manufacturing workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Pleasureville who work in maintenance occupations (13.34%), healthcare suport services (11.99%), and management occupations (8.28%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Overall, Pleasureville’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

In Pleasureville, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 33.13 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

As is often the case in a small city, Pleasureville doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

In terms of college education, Pleasureville ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 4.09% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Pleasureville in 2022 was $24,169, which is lower middle income relative to Kentucky, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $96,676 for a family of four. However, Pleasureville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

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.

People

If you're looking for a great spot to raise a family, then look no further than the neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's analysis found that the combination of good quality public schools, above-average safety from crime, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family homes, help make this neighborhood among the top 12.3% of family-friendly neighborhoods across the state of Kentucky. In addition, there are a high proportion of other families with school-aged children living here, making it easy for parents and their children to socialize and develop a sense of community support. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools, in part due to the educational attainment of the parents here, who vote in support of the public schools.

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 Pleasureville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 68.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 14.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 59.9% 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, 34.7% 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 25.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.7%), and 17.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.5%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Pleasureville, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (14.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.4%), and residents who report German roots (7.7%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (7.0%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (6.1%), among others.

Getting to Work

How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (30.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (77.2%) 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 (12.3%) . 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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