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Paintsville, KY

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Overview


Paintsville is a very small city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 4,200 people and just one neighborhood, Paintsville is the 100th largest community in Kentucky.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities, Paintsville isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Paintsville are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Paintsville is a city of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Paintsville who work in healthcare (13.85%), teaching (11.92%), and healthcare suport services (8.82%).

A relatively large number of people in Paintsville telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 13.28% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Paintsville spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 18.97 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the city are less than they would otherwise be.

Paintsville 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.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Paintsville with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 13.59% of adults in Paintsville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Paintsville in 2022 was $20,487, 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 $81,948 for a family of four. However, Paintsville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Paintsville also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 30.12% of its population below the federal poverty line.

The people who call Paintsville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Paintsville residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Paintsville include German, English, Irish, Welsh, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Paintsville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Chinese and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

The neighborhood stands out for having an average per capita income lower than 98.8% of the neighborhoods in the United States.

In addition, of particular note, 4.4% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.

Also, one of the really interesting characteristics about the neighborhood is that, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research, it is an excellent choice in which to reside for college students. Due to its popularity among college students who already choose to live here, its walkability, and its above average safety from crime, the neighborhood is ideal for prospective or already-enrolled college students. Between semesters and during school breaks, you'll notice that the excitement here fluctuates with the college seasons. Despite the excitement however, parents of college-age children can rest easy knowing that this neighborhood has an above average safety rating. For each of these reasons, the neighborhood is rated among the top 2.5% of college-friendly places to live in the state of Kentucky.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Paintsville are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 98.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 47.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 93.1% 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, 41.9% 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 28.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (16.5%), and 12.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.6% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Paintsville, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (14.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (10.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.7%), and some of the residents are also of Swiss ancestry (3.1%), along with some British ancestry residents (1.3%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (56.4% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (74.2%) 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 (14.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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