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. Much of the housing stock in Pleasureville was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic cities in the country.
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%).
Overall, Pleasureville’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
One downside of living in Pleasureville is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Pleasureville, the average commute to work is 30.64 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small city, Pleasureville doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
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.
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 Pleasureville, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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.
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.
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, 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.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.1% of households.
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.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. 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.