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Corinth, KY

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Overview


Corinth is a tiny city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 233 people and just one neighborhood, Corinth is the 383rd largest community in Kentucky.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Corinth is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 42.61% of the Corinth workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Corinth is a city of service providers, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Corinth who work in management occupations (11.30%), office and administrative support (10.43%), and sales jobs (9.57%).

Setting & Lifestyle

The overall crime rate in Corinth is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.

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!) Corinth 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. Corinth has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Corinth than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Corinth may be for you.

One downside of living in Corinth, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.81 minutes every day commuting to work.

Corinth is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The population of Corinth has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 0.53% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Corinth in 2022 was $28,509, 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 $114,036 for a family of four. However, Corinth contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Corinth home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Corinth residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Corinth include Irish, German, Scots-Irish, Northern European, and English.

The most common language spoken in Corinth is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian 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 Corinth, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry.

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 Corinth are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 40.9% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 9.6% 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 51.7% of America'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, 39.4% 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 27.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.1%), and 10.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.8% of households.

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 Corinth, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (18.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (17.2%), and residents who report German roots (14.5%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (4.3%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (3.9%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (35.1% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (87.2%) 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 (5.9%) . 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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