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Pleasureville, KY

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Overview


Pleasureville is a tiny city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 786 people and just one neighborhood, Pleasureville is the 282nd largest community in Kentucky. Pleasureville has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities.

Occupations and Workforce

Pleasureville is a blue-collar town, with 45.28% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Pleasureville is a city of service providers, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Pleasureville who work in healthcare suport services (12.86%), office and administrative support (9.43%), and maintenance occupations (8.40%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

One downside of living in Pleasureville, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 30.64 minutes every day commuting to work.

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

Demographics

The population of Pleasureville has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 5.07% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Pleasureville in 2022 was $23,285, which is middle income relative to Kentucky, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $93,140 for a family of four. However, Pleasureville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Pleasureville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pleasureville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Pleasureville include English, German, Irish, Scandinavian, and Scots-Irish.

The most common language spoken in Pleasureville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 92.9% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Pleasureville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 68.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 10.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 51.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 32.7% 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 24.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (20.3%), and 19.3% 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 98.1% of households.

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 Pleasureville, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (16.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.8%), and residents who report German roots (9.1%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (4.6%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (4.3%), 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 (32.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (77.1%) 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 (11.4%) . 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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