Ledbetter - Smithland is a very small town located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 3,379 people and just one neighborhood, Ledbetter - Smithland is the 121st largest community in Kentucky.
When you are in Ledbetter - Smithland, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 41.23% of Ledbetter - Smithland’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Ledbetter - Smithland is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ledbetter - Smithland who work in office and administrative support (10.24%), sales jobs (10.17%), and teaching (6.83%).
Also of interest is that Ledbetter - Smithland has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Ledbetter - Smithland is worth considering.
The rate of college-level education in Ledbetter - Smithland is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 11.88% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Ledbetter - Smithland in 2022 was $36,663, which is wealthy relative to Kentucky, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $146,652 for a family of four. However, Ledbetter - Smithland contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Ledbetter - Smithland home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ledbetter - Smithland residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Ledbetter - Smithland include European, English, Irish, French, and German.
The most common language spoken in Ledbetter - Smithland is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and African languages.
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 Ledbetter - Smithland, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 90.4% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.8% of all American neighborhoods.
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 Ledbetter - Smithland are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 45.2% of the neighborhoods in America. With 36.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 86.9% 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, 41.0% 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 24.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.0%), and 14.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 100.0% 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 Ledbetter - Smithland, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (11.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (7.4%), and residents who report French roots (5.6%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (3.3%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (1.6%), 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 (60.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (90.4%) 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.