Wingo is a tiny city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 578 people and just one neighborhood, Wingo is the 319th largest community in Kentucky.
When you are in Wingo, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 53.46% of Wingo’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Wingo is a city of transportation and shipping workers, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Wingo who work in sales jobs (11.92%), office and administrative support (7.31%), and healthcare (5.00%).
Overall, Wingo’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
Wingo 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 Wingo is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 12.35% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Wingo in 2022 was $23,691, 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 $94,764 for a family of four. However, Wingo contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Wingo is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Wingo home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wingo residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Wingo include English, Irish, German, Italian, and European.
The most common language spoken in Wingo is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Tagalog.
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 Wingo, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 89.0% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.2% of all American neighborhoods.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 95.1% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this 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 36 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 91.5% of 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 Wingo are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 80.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 41.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 90.3% 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, 39.1% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 23.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (19.4%), and 14.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.6% of households.
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Wingo, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (15.4%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (5.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (5.3%), and some of the residents are also of Puerto Rican ancestry (2.4%), along with some French ancestry residents (1.6%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (47.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (89.0%) 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 (6.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.