Wheelwright is a tiny city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 488 people and just one neighborhood, Wheelwright is the 328th largest community in Kentucky. Wheelwright has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities in the country.
Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Wheelwright is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Wheelwright is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Wheelwright who work in sales jobs (19.34%), office and administrative support (11.60%), and law enforcement and fire fighting (9.94%).
Overall, Wheelwright’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
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!) Wheelwright 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. Wheelwright has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Wheelwright than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Wheelwright may be for you.
One downside of living in Wheelwright, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 41.48 minutes every day commuting to work.
Being a small city, Wheelwright does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Wheelwright has a very low overall level of education: only 9.08% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Wheelwright in 2022 was $17,626, which is low income relative to Kentucky and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $70,504 for a family of four. However, Wheelwright contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Wheelwright also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 32.95% of its population below the federal poverty line.
The people who call Wheelwright home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wheelwright residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Wheelwright include Scottish, English, Irish, Welsh, and German.
The most common language spoken in Wheelwright is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Greek.
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.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 97.5% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.8% of all American neighborhoods.
The neighborhood stands out for having an average per capita income lower than 98.5% of the neighborhoods in the United States.
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 Wheelwright are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 98.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 18.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 66.7% of U.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, 33.4% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 32.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (25.3%), and 10.0% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 100.0% 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 Wheelwright, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (5.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (4.0%), and residents who report Scottish roots (3.1%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (2.4%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (2.3%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.3% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (97.5%) 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.