Cerulean is a tiny town located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 303 people and just one neighborhood, Cerulean is the 356th largest community in Kentucky. Cerulean has seen a significant amount of newer housing growth in recent years. Quite often, new home construction is the result of new residents moving in who are middle class or wealthier, attracted by jobs, a healthy local economy, or other amenities as they leave nearby or far away areas for greener pastures. This seems to be the case in Cerulean, where the median household income is $72,778.00.
When you are in Cerulean, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 44.39% of Cerulean’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Cerulean is a town of transportation and shipping workers, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cerulean who work in office and administrative support (21.96%), management occupations (14.49%), and food service (13.55%).
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 20.09% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.
Overall, Cerulean’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
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, Cerulean has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Cerulean a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
In Cerulean, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 35.31 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small town, Cerulean doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The rate of college-level education in Cerulean is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 11.01% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Cerulean in 2022 was $27,603, which is middle income relative to Kentucky, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $110,412 for a family of four. However, Cerulean contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Cerulean also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 44.74% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Cerulean is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Cerulean home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cerulean residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Cerulean include Swiss, English, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, and West Indian.
The most common language spoken in Cerulean is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
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 Cerulean, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 14.2% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 99.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the (34.1%) than in 99.4% of the neighborhoods in America.
Of note, 60.1% of the children in this area live in poverty; an extraordinarily high percentage compared to other neighborhoods in the nation. In a nation where approximately one in four children grows up in poverty, this neighborhood stands out for the depth of the problem manifested here.
In addition, astoundingly, the neighborhood has one of the highest concentrations of divorcees living here than of any neighborhood, a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.0% 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 Cerulean neighborhood.
Despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 33.2%, which is higher than 96.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 33 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 92.2% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss and English ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry and 21.4% have English ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 6.4% 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 99.3% 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 Cerulean are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 72.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 60.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 97.0% 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, 32.6% 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 22.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.4%), and 14.2% in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Polish.
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 Cerulean, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (21.4%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (9.8%), and residents who report French roots (2.9%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (2.5%), along with some Swiss ancestry residents (2.4%), 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 (43.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (54.0%) 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 (34.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.