Muldraugh is a very small city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 1,019 people and just one neighborhood, Muldraugh is the 252nd largest community in Kentucky.
Muldraugh is a blue-collar town, with 39.66% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Muldraugh is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Muldraugh who work in sales jobs (20.43%), food service (7.21%), and maintenance occupations (6.97%).
Also of interest is that Muldraugh has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
A relatively large number of people in Muldraugh telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 15.00% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.
One downside of living in Muldraugh is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Muldraugh, the average commute to work is 35.54 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small city, Muldraugh doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The population of Muldraugh has a very low overall level of education: only 6.12% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Muldraugh in 2022 was $21,902, 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 $87,608 for a family of four.
Muldraugh is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Muldraugh home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Muldraugh residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Muldraugh include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Muldraugh is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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.
Astoundingly, the neighborhood has one of the highest concentrations of divorcees living here than of any neighborhood, a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. This may be because people living here divorce more often than others, or that divorced people move here after they become divorced. If you are divorced, you will be in good company in this particular Muldraugh neighborhood.
In addition, neighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 93.9% of the adult residents in the neighborhood do not have a 4-year college degree, which is a lower rate of college graduated adults than found in 96.1% of the neighborhoods in 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 Muldraugh are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 80.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 30.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 81.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 39.7% 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 36.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (15.9%), and 8.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.9% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (3.1%).
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 Muldraugh, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (8.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (7.7%), and residents who report Mexican roots (4.1%), and some of the residents are also of Puerto Rican ancestry (3.0%), along with some English ancestry residents (2.8%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (28.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (70.3%) 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 (12.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.