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Eminence, KY

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Overview


Eminence is a very small city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 2,715 people and just one neighborhood, Eminence is the 152nd largest community in Kentucky.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Eminence is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 39.77% of the Eminence workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Eminence is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Eminence who work in office and administrative support (9.00%), maintenance occupations (9.00%), and sales jobs (7.52%).

Also of interest is that Eminence 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 Eminence, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.37 minutes every day commuting to work.

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

Demographics

The citizens of Eminence are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 13.90% of adults in Eminence have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Eminence in 2022 was $24,139, which is middle income relative to Kentucky, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $96,556 for a family of four. However, Eminence contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Eminence is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Eminence home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Eminence residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Eminence also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 10.39% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Eminence include English, Irish, German, Scots-Irish, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Eminence is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Langs. of India.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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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 Eminence are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 78.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 30.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 81.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 35.9% 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 29.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.4%), and 14.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (5.3%).

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 Eminence, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (17.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (15.9%), and residents who report German roots (8.5%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (7.2%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (2.0%), 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 (36.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (73.0%) 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 (18.0%) . 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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