Mount Olivet is a tiny city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 361 people and just one neighborhood, Mount Olivet is the 345th largest community in Kentucky. Mount Olivet has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities.
Mount Olivet is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 87.50% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Mount Olivet is a city of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mount Olivet who work in healthcare (20.83%), office and administrative support (14.58%), and management occupations (14.58%).
The overall crime rate in Mount Olivet is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
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, Mount Olivet has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Mount Olivet a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Mount Olivet 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 education level of Mount Olivet citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 24.19% of adults in Mount Olivet have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Mount Olivet in 2022 was $27,911, 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 $111,644 for a family of four. However, Mount Olivet contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Mount Olivet also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 34.84% of its population below the federal poverty line.
The people who call Mount Olivet home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mount Olivet residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Mount Olivet include Irish, German, English, Scots-Irish, and Welsh.
The most common language spoken in Mount Olivet is English. Other important languages spoken here include Greek and Polish.
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.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 88.9% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.1% of all American neighborhoods.
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 22 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 94.3% of America.
Significantly, 1.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.8% 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 Mount Olivet are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 80.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 22.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 73.5% 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, 33.1% 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 28.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (23.0%), and 15.8% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.3% 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 Mount Olivet, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (15.7%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (13.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.8%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (2.0%), along with some Welsh ancestry residents (1.7%), among others.
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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (30.5% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (88.9%) 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 (8.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.