Providence is a very small city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 2,819 people and just one neighborhood, Providence is the 143rd largest community in Kentucky.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Providence is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 52.64% of the Providence workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Providence is a city of production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Providence who work in office and administrative support (10.21%), sales jobs (8.37%), and business and financial occupations (6.28%).
It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Providence has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Providence has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Providence than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Providence may be for you.
Providence is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The citizens of Providence are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.57% of adults in Providence have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Providence in 2022 was $24,983, 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 $99,932 for a family of four. However, Providence contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Providence is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Providence home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Providence residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Providence include English, Irish, German, European, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Providence is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
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.
In the neighborhood, carpooling is still a popular way to get to and from work. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that 30.9% of commuters carpool here, which is more than in 99.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 49.7% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 98.8% of American neighborhoods.
If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Providence 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 85.1% of the neighborhoods in Kentucky. If you are considering retiring to Kentucky, this is a good neighborhood to look at.
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 Providence are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 79.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 26.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 76.8% 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, 49.7% 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 20.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (14.9%), and 13.9% 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 99.1% 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 Providence, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (18.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.8%), and residents who report German roots (7.4%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (1.8%), along with some Norwegian ancestry residents (1.1%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.0% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (63.7%) 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 (30.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.