Sandy Hook is a tiny city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 631 people and two associated neighborhoods, Sandy Hook is the 307th largest community in Kentucky.Unlike some cities, Sandy Hook isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Sandy Hook are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Sandy Hook is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sandy Hook who work in sales jobs (31.69%), office and administrative support (13.38%), and teaching (10.56%). Also of interest is that Sandy Hook has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. A relatively large number of people in Sandy Hook telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 11.59% 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. Overall, Sandy Hook’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern. The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Sandy Hook has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Sandy Hook a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. Being a small city, Sandy Hook does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.In Sandy Hook, just 8.14% 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 Sandy Hook in 2022 was $16,329, which is low income relative to Kentucky and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $65,316 for a family of four. Sandy Hook also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 53.29% of its population below the federal poverty line. The people who call Sandy Hook home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Sandy Hook residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Sandy Hook include English, Irish, German, French, and Scottish. The most common language spoken in Sandy Hook is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
