Corinth is a tiny city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 233 people and just one neighborhood, Corinth is the 383rd largest community in Kentucky.
When you are in Corinth, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 42.61% of Corinth’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Corinth is a city of service providers, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Corinth who work in management occupations (11.30%), office and administrative support (10.43%), and sales jobs (9.57%).
Overall, Corinth’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!) Corinth 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. Corinth has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Corinth than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Corinth may be for you.
One downside of living in Corinth, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.81 minutes every day commuting to work.
Corinth 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.
Corinth ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 0.53% of people over 25 have a college degree.
The per capita income in Corinth in 2022 was $28,509, which is upper middle income relative to Kentucky, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $114,036 for a family of four. However, Corinth contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Corinth home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Corinth residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Corinth include Irish, German, Scots-Irish, Northern European, and English.
The most common language spoken in Corinth is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and French.
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 Corinth, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish 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 Corinth are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 40.9% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 9.6% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 51.7% of America'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, 39.4% 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 27.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.1%), and 10.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.8% of households.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Corinth, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (18.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (17.2%), and residents who report German roots (14.5%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (4.3%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (3.9%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (35.1% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (87.2%) 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 (5.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.