Coldiron is a tiny town located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 222 people and just one neighborhood, Coldiron is the 384th largest community in Kentucky.
When you are in Coldiron, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 53.14% of Coldiron’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Coldiron is a town of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Coldiron who work in sales jobs (22.29%), food service (15.43%), and office and administrative support (9.14%).
Overall, Coldiron’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
As is often the case in a small town, Coldiron doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The citizens of Coldiron have a very low rate of college education: just 7.21% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.
The per capita income in Coldiron in 2022 was $17,920, which is low income relative to Kentucky and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $71,680 for a family of four.
The people who call Coldiron home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Coldiron residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Coldiron include Irish, Italian, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, and West Indian.
The most common language spoken in Coldiron is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.
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.
Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the (25.8%) than in 97.5% of the neighborhoods in America.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 95.9% of all neighborhoods in America, with 32.6% 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.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 93.2% of the adult residents in the neighborhood do not have a 4-year college degree, which is a lower rate of college graduated adults than found in 95.4% of the neighborhoods in America.
The neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 95.1% of the neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. This is a unique feature of this neighborhood, and one that shapes its character.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Welsh and Romanian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Welsh ancestry and 0.9% have Romanian ancestry.
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 Coldiron are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 93.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 30.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 81.7% 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, 32.1% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 28.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.6%), and 18.4% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.9% of households. Some people also speak Chinese (2.1%).
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 Coldiron, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (5.6%). There are also a number of people of Welsh ancestry (4.5%), and residents who report Scottish roots (4.5%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (4.0%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (2.4%), 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 (51.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (74.2%) 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 (25.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.