Providence is a very small city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 2,819 people and just one neighborhood, Providence is the 143rd largest community in Kentucky.
When you are in Providence, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 52.64% of Providence’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Providence is a city of production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Providence who work in office and administrative support (10.21%), sales jobs (8.37%), and business and financial occupations (6.28%).
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, Providence has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Providence a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Providence 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 percentage of adults in Providence with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 14.57% of adults in Providence have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Providence in 2022 was $24,983, 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 $99,932 for a family of four. However, Providence contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Providence is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Providence home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Providence residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Providence include English, Irish, German, European, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Providence is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the (30.9%) than in 99.0% of the neighborhoods in America.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 49.7% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 98.8% of American neighborhoods.
If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Providence is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in KY, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 85.1% of the neighborhoods in Kentucky. If you are considering retiring to Kentucky, this is a good neighborhood to look at.
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 Providence are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 79.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 26.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 76.8% 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, 49.7% 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 20.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (14.9%), and 13.9% 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 99.1% of households.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Providence, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (18.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.8%), and residents who report German roots (7.4%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (1.8%), along with some Norwegian ancestry residents (1.1%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.0% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (63.7%) 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 (30.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.