Hagerhill is a very small town located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 3,266 people and just one neighborhood, Hagerhill is the second largest community in Kentucky.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Hagerhill is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Hagerhill is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Hagerhill who work in office and administrative support (10.69%), sales jobs (9.17%), and healthcare (8.93%).
The overall crime rate in Hagerhill is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
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!) Hagerhill 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. Hagerhill has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Hagerhill than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Hagerhill may be for you.
Hagerhill is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The rate of college-level education in Hagerhill is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 12.37% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Hagerhill in 2022 was $20,232, 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 $80,928 for a family of four. However, Hagerhill contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Hagerhill home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Hagerhill residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Hagerhill include German, Irish, English, Welsh, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Hagerhill is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
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.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 93.6% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.0% of all American neighborhoods.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 98.4% of all neighborhoods in America, with 44.0% 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.
One of the unique characteristics of the neighborhood revealed by analysis is that the per capita income of residents here is lower than that found in 95.6% of the neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Welsh ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Welsh 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 Hagerhill are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 95.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 33.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 84.6% 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, 30.2% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 28.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (26.7%), and 14.8% 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 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 Hagerhill, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (9.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (7.3%), and residents who report English roots (7.0%), and some of the residents are also of Welsh ancestry (2.2%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.7%), 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 (50.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (93.6%) 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.