La Center - Kevil is a very small town located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 3,937 people and just one neighborhood, La Center - Kevil is the 104th largest community in Kentucky.
Unlike some towns, La Center - Kevil isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in La Center - Kevil are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, La Center - Kevil is a town of managers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in La Center - Kevil who work in management occupations (17.38%), healthcare (12.34%), and office and administrative support (11.74%).
Being a small town, La Center - Kevil does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of La Center - Kevil overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in La Center - Kevil, 23.34% have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in La Center - Kevil in 2022 was $31,400, 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 $125,600 for a family of four. However, La Center - Kevil contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call La Center - Kevil home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of La Center - Kevil residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in La Center - Kevil include English, Irish, German, European, and French.
The most common language spoken in La Center - Kevil is English. Other important languages spoken here include Greek and Spanish.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Our research reveals that 91.6% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 97.9% of U.S. neighborhoods.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 34 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 91.9% of America.
If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in La Center - Kevil is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in KY, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 87.2% of the neighborhoods in Kentucky. If you are considering retiring to Kentucky, this is a good neighborhood to look at.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more English ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 23.6% of this neighborhood's residents have English ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.3% of the 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 La Center - Kevil are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 69.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 9.0% 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 53.3% 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, 40.4% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 24.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.0%), and 13.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 90.4% of households.
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 La Center - Kevil, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (23.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.1%), and residents who report German roots (6.9%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (2.7%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.1%), among others.
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 (33.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (91.6%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.