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Mousie, KY

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Overview


Mousie is a very small town located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 1,965 people and just one neighborhood, Mousie is the 194th largest community in Kentucky.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Mousie is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Mousie is a town of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mousie who work in healthcare suport services (16.26%), office and administrative support (8.42%), and management occupations (8.13%).

Also of interest is that Mousie has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 22.93% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

Mousie’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.

The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Mousie has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Mousie a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One downside of living in Mousie is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Mousie, the average commute to work is 32.29 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Being a small town, Mousie does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

In terms of college education, Mousie is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 17.33% of adults 25 and older in Mousie have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Mousie in 2022 was $25,738, which is middle income relative to Kentucky, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $102,952 for a family of four. However, Mousie contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Mousie home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mousie residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Mousie include Irish, English, European, German, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Mousie is English. Other important languages spoken here include West Germanic languages and African languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 95.5% of all neighborhoods in America, with 31.3% 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.

In addition, uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 23 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 94.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Mousie are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 81.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 47.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 93.0% 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, 33.2% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 24.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (20.3%), and 20.3% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 100.0% 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 Mousie, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (17.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (13.2%), and residents who report German roots (2.4%).

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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (37.2% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (70.3%) 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 (5.3%) . 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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