Campbellsburg is a tiny city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 838 people and just one neighborhood, Campbellsburg is the 275th largest community in Kentucky.
Campbellsburg is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Campbellsburg is a city of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Campbellsburg who work in sales jobs (12.76%), law enforcement and fire fighting (8.12%), and office and administrative support (6.26%).
Also of interest is that Campbellsburg has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Campbellsburg’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
Campbellsburg 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.
The rate of college-level education in Campbellsburg is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 12.26% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Campbellsburg in 2022 was $22,515, 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 $90,060 for a family of four. However, Campbellsburg contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Campbellsburg home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Campbellsburg residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Campbellsburg include English, Irish, German, Belgian, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Campbellsburg is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Astoundingly, the neighborhood has one of the highest concentrations of divorcees living here than of any neighborhood, a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.2% 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 Campbellsburg neighborhood.
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 44 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 90.2% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Belgian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Belgian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 2.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.9% of the 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. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Campbellsburg are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 69.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 29.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 80.9% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 36.0% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 32.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (22.0%), and 9.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.4% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (2.9%).
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 Campbellsburg, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (13.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (12.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.4%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (3.6%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (1.8%), 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 (36.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (81.2%) 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 (10.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.