Garrison is a tiny town located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 731 people and just one neighborhood, Garrison is the 291st largest community in Kentucky.
Garrison is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Garrison is a town of professionals, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Garrison who work in legal occupations (36.97%), healthcare suport services (20.61%), and food service (9.09%).
Garrison’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
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!) Garrison 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. Garrison has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Garrison than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Garrison may be for you.
In Garrison, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 52.02 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Garrison does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
Garrison ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 4.82% of people over 25 have a college degree.
The per capita income in Garrison in 2022 was $17,551, which is low income relative to Kentucky and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $70,204 for a family of four. However, Garrison contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Garrison also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 42.79% of its population below the federal poverty line.
The people who call Garrison home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Garrison residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Garrison include German, English, Irish, Greek, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Garrison is English. Other important languages spoken here include Greek 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.
Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. Long commutes can be brutal. They take time, money, and energy, leaving less of you for yourself and your family. The residents of the neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 15.7% of commuters here travel more than one hour just one-way to work. That is more than two hours per day. This percentage with two-hour + round-trip commutes is higher than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.8% of all neighborhoods in America.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 96.1% of all neighborhoods in America, with 33.0% 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.
In addition, this neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 44 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 90.2% of America.
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 Garrison are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 87.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 35.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 85.9% 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, 39.3% 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 25.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.0%), and 14.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.8% 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 Garrison, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (16.4%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (14.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.1%).
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 (27.1% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (86.7%) 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 (11.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.