Sandy Hook is a tiny city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 631 people and two associated neighborhoods, Sandy Hook is the 307th largest community in Kentucky.Unlike some cities, Sandy Hook isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Sandy Hook are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Sandy Hook is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sandy Hook who work in sales jobs (31.69%), office and administrative support (13.38%), and teaching (10.56%). Also of interest is that Sandy Hook has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 11.59% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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. Sandy Hook’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live. It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Sandy Hook has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Sandy Hook has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Sandy Hook than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Sandy Hook may be for you. As is often the case in a small city, Sandy Hook doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.In Sandy Hook, just 8.14% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%. The per capita income in Sandy Hook in 2022 was $16,329, which is low income relative to Kentucky and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $65,316 for a family of four. Sandy Hook also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 53.29% of its population below the federal poverty line. The people who call Sandy Hook home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Sandy Hook residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Sandy Hook include English, Irish, German, French, and Scottish. The most common language spoken in Sandy Hook is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
