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Beechmont - Drakesboro is a very small town located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 3,634 people and just one neighborhood, Beechmont - Drakesboro is the 115th largest community in Kentucky.
Occupations and Workforce
When you are in Beechmont - Drakesboro, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 55.17% of Beechmont - Drakesboro’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Beechmont - Drakesboro is a town of production and manufacturing workers, transportation and shipping workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Beechmont - Drakesboro who work in healthcare (11.28%), sales jobs (7.05%), and office and administrative support (6.58%).
Also of interest is that Beechmont - Drakesboro has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Setting & Lifestyle
One downside of living in Beechmont - Drakesboro is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Beechmont - Drakesboro, the average commute to work is 30.61 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Beechmont - Drakesboro does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
Demographics
Beechmont - Drakesboro ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 3.37% of people over 25 have a college degree.
The per capita income in Beechmont - Drakesboro in 2022 was $21,057, 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 $84,228 for a family of four. However, Beechmont - Drakesboro contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Beechmont - Drakesboro home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Beechmont - Drakesboro residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Beechmont - Drakesboro include Irish, English, German, African, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Beechmont - Drakesboro is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and French.
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 Beechmont - Drakesboro, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Occupations
More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 99.6% of the neighborhoods in America. Despite the loss of manufacturing jobs across the nation, this neighborhood remains a place where, compared to other parts of the country, you will find many laborers and manufacturers.
Modes of Transportation
Our research reveals that 94.2% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 99.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.
People
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 96.6% 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 98.2% 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 Beechmont - Drakesboro are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 89.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 32.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 83.7% 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, 55.2% 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 23.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (14.3%), and 6.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.6% 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 Beechmont - Drakesboro, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (13.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (8.1%), and residents who report German roots (6.8%), and some of the residents are also of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (1.1%), along with some African ancestry residents (1.1%), 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 (44.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (94.2%) 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 (5.1%) . 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.
