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EMPLOYMENT INDUSTRY AND CLASS OF WORKER According to the 2020 ACS 5-year estimates, the leading industry for Pendleton County’s employed population 16 years and older was manufacturing, representing 1/6th of all jobs followed by Education, 15.4%, and Retail at 11.7%7. Not surprising, the most common occupations were those related to production, transportation, and material moving […]

LANGUAGE PRIMARY LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME The primary language spoken at home in Pendleton County is English, representing more than 98.5% of households4. Indo-European languages represent those languages spoken mostly in Europe and areas of European settlement and in much of Southwest and South Asia. They include well known languages such as Iranian, Greek, German,

NATIVITY PLACE OF BIRTH Of Pendleton County residents born in the United States, 98.7%, only 72.3% of the population was born in Kentucky4. Another 26.4% were born within the United States and migrated to Kentucky4. Foreign born residents represent only 1.3% of the population4. “More than 1 in 4 people were born outside of Kentucky”

GEOGRAPHIC MOBILITY RESIDENCE 1 YEAR AGO According to the 2020 ACS 5-year estimates, nearly 86% of Pendleton County residents one year and over were living in the same house twelve months earlier; less than 6% moved within Pendleton County from one housing unit to another; and more than 6% moved in from another county within

HOUSEHOLDS OCCUPANCY According to the 2020 ACS 5-year estimates, Pendleton County has a higher than average percentage, 70.8%, of owner-occupied housing as compared with the Commonwealth and national averages at 67.6% and 64.4% respectively5. Another 29.2% of homes in Pendleton County are occupied by renters from both commercial and private owners which slightly less than

HOUSEHOLDS SIZE The 2020 ACS 5-year estimates there are 5,250 total households in Pendleton County4. The average owner-occupied household size of 2.72 persons per household is slightly larger than the Commonwealth and national averages at 2.55 and 2.69 respectively5. Pendleton County’s average household size is slightyly larger than the average in Kentucky and the U.S.

RACE AND ETHNICITY Photo courtesy of Pew Research Center The primary racial composition of Pendleton County is white. According to the 2020 ACS 5-year estimates, over 95% of Pendleton County selected “White Alone” as their race compared to 86.2% and 70.4% in the Commonwealth and nation overall3. Population by Race Races other than Black, American

POPULATION TRENDS GROWTH Over the last 100 years, Pendleton County’s population trends have seen a steady rate of growth with brief periods of minimal recession. In comparison to Kentucky, Pendleton County’s rate of growth is much slower than the overall state growth rate, representing a 100-year growth rate of approximately 22% compared with 95% in

AGE AND GENDER MEDIAN AGE AND AGE DEPENDENCY According to the 2020 ACS 5-year estimates, Pendleton County had a total population of 14,587; 7,496/51% male and 7,091/49% female1. The median age is 40.8 years which is an increase of .2 from previous years1. Nearly 23% of the population is under 18 years of age and