Corydon is a tiny city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 726 people and just one neighborhood, Corydon is the 290th largest community in Kentucky.
When you are in Corydon, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 39.19% of Corydon’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Corydon is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Corydon who work in office and administrative support (14.19%), food service (13.51%), and teaching (7.43%).
Being a small city, Corydon does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Corydon have a very low rate of college education: just 8.10% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.
The per capita income in Corydon in 2022 was $23,718, 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 $94,872 for a family of four. However, Corydon contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Corydon is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Corydon home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Corydon residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Corydon include German, English, Irish, Scots-Irish, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Corydon is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Russian.
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.
Single parenting is hard. But you don't have to tell the neighborhood about it; they already know. 17.3% of this neighborhood's households are run by single mothers, which is a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.1% of American neighborhoods. Further NeighborhoodScout research showed strong statistical correlations among high rates of children living in single parent households, and neighborhood crime, particularly violent crime, neighborhood poverty, and, importantly, the percentage of low weight births and rates of infant mortality.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 33 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 92.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Corydon are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 80.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 25.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 76.6% 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, 34.2% 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 28.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (27.6%), and 9.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 100.0% of households.
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 Corydon, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (17.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (11.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.1%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (2.4%), along with some French ancestry residents (1.6%), 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 (35.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (84.4%) 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 (10.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.