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Mount Olivet, KY

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Overview


Mount Olivet is a tiny city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 349 people and just one neighborhood, Mount Olivet is the 345th largest community in Kentucky. Mount Olivet has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities.

Occupations and Workforce

Mount Olivet is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Mount Olivet is a city of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mount Olivet who work in healthcare (34.69%), food service (14.29%), and office and administrative support (10.20%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Overall, Mount Olivet’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

One downside of living in Mount Olivet, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.33 minutes every day commuting to work.

Mount Olivet 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

In terms of college education, Mount Olivet is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 19.47% of adults 25 and older in Mount Olivet have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Mount Olivet in 2022 was $21,985, 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 $87,940 for a family of four. Mount Olivet also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 31.29% of its population below the federal poverty line.

The people who call Mount Olivet home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mount Olivet residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Mount Olivet include Irish, German, English, Scots-Irish, and Welsh.

The most common language spoken in Mount Olivet is English. Other important languages spoken here include Greek and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

Astoundingly, the neighborhood has one of the highest concentrations of divorcees living here than of any neighborhood, a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. This may be because people living here divorce more often than others, or that divorced people move here after they become divorced. If you are divorced, you will be in good company in this particular Mount Olivet neighborhood.

Real Estate

Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 94.3% of the neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

Significantly, 1.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.8% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Mount Olivet are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 74.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 21.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 70.7% 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, 32.1% 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 32.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (20.3%), and 15.5% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.1% 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 Mount Olivet, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (16.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (10.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.8%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (1.9%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (1.8%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (30.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (88.5%) 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 (6.1%) . 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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