Waco is a very small town located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 3,242 people and just one neighborhood, Waco is the 132nd largest community in Kentucky.
Unlike some towns, Waco isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Waco are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Waco is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Waco who work in office and administrative support (15.95%), management occupations (13.46%), and maintenance occupations (8.95%).
A relatively large number of people in Waco telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 9.54% 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.
Waco’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
The town 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, Waco has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Waco a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Waco, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.06 minutes every day commuting to work.
Waco 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 overall education level of Waco is somewhat higher than in the average US city of 21.84%: 26.40% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Waco in 2022 was $31,503, which is upper middle income relative to Kentucky, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $126,012 for a family of four. However, Waco contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Waco home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Waco residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Waco include Irish, German, English, Italian, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Waco is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish 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 Waco, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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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 Waco are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 63.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 9.0% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 52.6% of America'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, 39.4% 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 25.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.7%), and 17.0% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.2% 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 Waco, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (6.4%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (5.4%), and residents who report English roots (5.0%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (1.4%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (85.2%) 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 (5.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.