Fancy Farm is a tiny town located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 403 people and just one neighborhood, Fancy Farm is the 337th largest community in Kentucky.
When you are in Fancy Farm, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 49.06% of Fancy Farm’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Fancy Farm is a town of transportation and shipping workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Fancy Farm who work in community and social services (17.92%), management occupations (13.21%), and food service (6.60%).
Fancy Farm’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
The town 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, Fancy Farm has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Fancy Farm a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
In Fancy Farm, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 32.55 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Fancy Farm is a very car-oriented town. 100.00% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Fancy Farm is a small town , and most people who live here have to drive out of town for work, and the town population is not large nor dense enough to support an extensive public transportation system. Fancy Farm has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.
Fancy Farm is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
In Fancy Farm, just 11.31% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.
The per capita income in Fancy Farm in 2022 was $26,401, 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 $105,604 for a family of four. However, Fancy Farm contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Fancy Farm is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Fancy Farm home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Fancy Farm residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Fancy Farm include English, German, Irish, Italian, and Romanian.
The most common language spoken in Fancy Farm is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Langs. of India.
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.
The neighborhood is a great option for families, as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's research on this neighborhood. The combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes, make this neighborhood among the top 6.0% of family-friendly neighborhoods in the state of Kentucky. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a sense of community. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools. In addition to being an excellent choice for families with school-aged children, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for college students.
Significantly, 6.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.4% 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 Fancy Farm are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 64.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 4.5% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 65.5% of America'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, 51.5% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 25.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (13.4%), and 9.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 89.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Spanish.
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 Fancy Farm, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (16.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.8%), and residents who report German roots (4.4%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (4.1%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.3%), 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 (43.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (81.7%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.