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Flatgap, KY

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Overview


Flatgap is a very small town located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 2,689 people and just one neighborhood, Flatgap is the 148th largest community in Kentucky.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Flatgap is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 39.88% of the Flatgap workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Flatgap is a town of professionals, construction workers and builders, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Flatgap who work in community and social services (10.79%), sales jobs (10.30%), and teaching (10.06%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Flatgap is worth considering.

In Flatgap, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 30.32 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Being a small town, Flatgap does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of Flatgap rank slightly lower than the national average. 13.06% of adults 25 and older in Flatgap have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.

The per capita income in Flatgap in 2022 was $20,312, which is low income relative to Kentucky and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $81,248 for a family of four. However, Flatgap contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Flatgap also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 33.82% of its population below the federal poverty line.

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

The most common language spoken in Flatgap is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and African languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 98.2% of all neighborhoods in America, with 42.6% 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.

In addition, this neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 41 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 90.8% of America.

People

The neighborhood stands out for having an average per capita income lower than 95.8% of the neighborhoods in the United States.

Modes of Transportation

Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the (22.9%) than in 95.5% of the neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scottish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Scottish ancestry.

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 Flatgap are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 95.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 38.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 88.3% 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, 39.9% 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 29.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (27.8%), and 5.9% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 100.0% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Flatgap, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (12.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (10.4%), and residents who report Scottish roots (5.8%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (1.1%).

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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (43.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (70.8%) 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 (22.9%) . 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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