Wickliffe is a tiny city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 658 people and just one neighborhood, Wickliffe is the 299th largest community in Kentucky.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Wickliffe is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 52.38% of the Wickliffe workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Wickliffe is a city of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Wickliffe who work in office and administrative support (11.90%), sales jobs (9.52%), and management occupations (8.57%).
Also of interest is that Wickliffe has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
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, Wickliffe has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Wickliffe a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
The population of Wickliffe has a very low overall level of education: only 8.71% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Wickliffe in 2022 was $19,795, 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 $79,180 for a family of four. However, Wickliffe contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Wickliffe also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 30.93% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Wickliffe is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Wickliffe home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wickliffe residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Wickliffe include English, African, German, Irish, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Wickliffe is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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 Wickliffe, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Of particular note, 2.9% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 90.6% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.0% of all American neighborhoods.
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 92.0% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Wickliffe are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 73.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 40.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 89.6% 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, 34.6% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 24.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (20.2%), and 19.2% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.0% of households.
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Wickliffe, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (19.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.4%), and residents who report German roots (7.7%), and some of the residents are also of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (3.8%), along with some African ancestry residents (3.8%), 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 (38.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (90.6%) 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 (7.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.