Buckhorn is a tiny city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 83 people and just one neighborhood, Buckhorn is the 407th largest community in Kentucky.
Buckhorn is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 100.00% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Buckhorn is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Buckhorn who work in community and social services (58.82%), teaching (29.41%), and office and administrative support (11.76%).
The overall crime rate in Buckhorn 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.
Residents of the city have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 14.56 minutes getting to work every day.
Being a small city, Buckhorn does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The education level of Buckhorn citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 30.77% of adults in Buckhorn have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Buckhorn in 2022 was $28,939, which is middle income relative to Kentucky, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $115,756 for a family of four. However, Buckhorn contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Buckhorn also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 32.00% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Buckhorn is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Buckhorn home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Buckhorn residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Buckhorn include Scottish, German, English, Irish, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Buckhorn is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 98.5% of all neighborhoods in America, with 44.3% 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.
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. 11.6% 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 Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ found in 97.0% of all neighborhoods in America.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Buckhorn are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 83.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 29.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 81.4% 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, 33.7% 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 25.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (22.4%), and 18.6% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.9% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.8%).
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 Buckhorn, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (19.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (14.1%), and residents who report German roots (8.2%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (1.9%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.2%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.7% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America. However, there is also a significant group of residents (11.6%) who commute over an hour in each direction.
Here most residents (73.9%) 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 (10.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.