Earlington - Mortons Gap is a very small town located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 3,171 people and just one neighborhood, Earlington - Mortons Gap is the 130th largest community in Kentucky.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Earlington - Mortons Gap is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Earlington - Mortons Gap is a town of service providers, production and manufacturing workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Earlington - Mortons Gap who work in maintenance occupations (12.43%), office and administrative support (9.06%), and healthcare (8.74%).
It is a fairly quiet town 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!) Earlington - Mortons Gap 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. Earlington - Mortons Gap has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Earlington - Mortons Gap than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Earlington - Mortons Gap may be for you.
As is often the case in a small town, Earlington - Mortons Gap doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In Earlington - Mortons Gap, just 9.15% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Earlington - Mortons Gap in 2022 was $22,460, which is lower middle income relative to Kentucky, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $89,840 for a family of four. However, Earlington - Mortons Gap contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Earlington - Mortons Gap home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Earlington - Mortons Gap residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Earlington - Mortons Gap include Irish, European, English, German, and French.
The most common language spoken in Earlington - Mortons Gap is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
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 Earlington - Mortons Gap are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 82.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 47.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 93.0% 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, 34.0% 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 27.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (25.6%), and 13.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.9% 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 Earlington - Mortons Gap, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (8.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (6.9%), and residents who report German roots (5.3%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (2.3%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.8%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (83.6%) 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 (14.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.