Buckhorn is a tiny city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 80 people and just one neighborhood, Buckhorn is the 407th largest community in Kentucky.
Buckhorn is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Buckhorn is a city of professionals, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Buckhorn who work in community and social services (30.00%), office and administrative support (23.33%), and teaching (13.33%).
Overall, Buckhorn’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Buckhorn has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Buckhorn has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Buckhorn than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Buckhorn may be for you.
Being a small city, Buckhorn does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Buckhorn with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 16.28% of adults in Buckhorn have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Buckhorn in 2022 was $31,925, 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 $127,700 for a family of four. However, Buckhorn contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Buckhorn home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Buckhorn residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Buckhorn include German, English, Scottish, Irish, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Buckhorn is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.
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 Buckhorn, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 98.1% of all neighborhoods in America, with 42.5% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.
Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. Long commutes can be brutal. They take time, money, and energy, leaving less of you for yourself and your family. The residents of the neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 10.0% of commuters here travel more than one hour just one-way to work. That is more than two hours per day. This percentage with two-hour + round-trip commutes is higher than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.4% of all neighborhoods in America.
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 Buckhorn are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 89.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 48.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 93.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 36.6% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 24.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (20.4%), and 18.7% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.9% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.8%).
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 Buckhorn, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (16.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (13.0%), and residents who report German roots (4.4%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (3.1%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (2.4%), among others.
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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (30.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America. However, there is also a significant group of residents (10.0%) who commute over an hour in each direction.
Here most residents (76.9%) 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 (16.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.