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Mortons Gap city, Kentucky: commercial real estate data.
Mortons Gap city is a Census city of 650 people across 1.18 square miles of land, in Hopkins County. 83.2 percent of occupied homes are owned.
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Mortons Gap
What Mortons Gap is
- Census place typecity
- Land area1.18 sq mi
- Water area0.01 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land549 plus or minus 229
- County holding the largest share of its areaHopkins County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Mortons Gap
How many people live in Mortons Gap
- Population650 plus or minus 271
- Median age46.7 plus or minus 17.8
- Population under 18137 plus or minus 71
- Share under 1821.1 percent plus or minus 6.6
- Population 65 and over141 plus or minus 58
- Share 65 and over21.7 percent plus or minus 12.7
- Households273 plus or minus 87
- Family households173 plus or minus 74
- Share of households that are families63.4 percent plus or minus 18.1
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Mortons Gap
Income and work in Mortons Gap
- Per capita income$21,267 plus or minus $5,619
- Civilian labor force167 plus or minus 92
- Employed167 plus or minus 92
- Unemployed0
- Unemployment rate0.0 percent
- Adults 25 and over499 plus or minus 202
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher86.6 percent plus or minus 45.5
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher5.8 percent plus or minus 4.9
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree2.0 percent plus or minus 3.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Mortons Gap
Housing in Mortons Gap
- Housing units327 plus or minus 97
- Occupied units273 plus or minus 87
- Vacant units54 plus or minus 30
- Vacancy rate16.5 percent plus or minus 7.8
- Owner occupied227 plus or minus 81
- Renter occupied46 plus or minus 35
- Ownership rate83.2 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$96,800 plus or minus $22,576
- Median gross rent, monthly$675 plus or minus $177
- Single family units303 plus or minus 92
- Share single family92.7 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more6 plus or minus 16
- Share in buildings of two or more1.8 percent plus or minus 5.0
- Mobile homes18 plus or minus 17
- Median year structure built1970
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Mortons Gap
How Mortons Gap gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute167 plus or minus 92
- Commuting under 15 minutes50 plus or minus 32
- Share commuting under 15 minutes29.9 percent plus or minus 10.1
- Commuting 30 minutes or more24 plus or minus 24
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more14.4 percent plus or minus 12.1
- Drove alone92.2 percent
- Carpooled2.4 percent plus or minus 4.6
- Public transport1.2 percent plus or minus 2.3
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home0.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Hopkins County, not Mortons Gap
Hopkins County context, not Mortons Gap figures
These are Hopkins County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Mortons Gap measurements.
- Establishments in Hopkins County882
- Employment at those establishments, Hopkins County14,582
- Covered employment, Hopkins County17,505
- Average annual pay, Hopkins County$54,831
- Average weekly wage, Hopkins County$1,054
- Housing units permitted, Hopkins County118
- Of those, single family, Hopkins County112
- County product, 2024, Hopkins County$2,661,004,000
- County product change over the prior year, Hopkins County3.7 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Hopkins County$47,272
Every figure in this section is published for Hopkins County as a whole and is not a measurement of Mortons Gap. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- No SBA approvals are recorded to a borrower address in this place in either FOIA release.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- The American Community Survey does not publish a median household income for this place, which happens where the sample is too small to support one.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Mortons Gap questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Mortons Gap, Kentucky?
650, in 273 households. Mortons Gap city covers 1.18 square miles of land, which is 549 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Mortons Gap in?
Hopkins County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
Are the county figures on this page Mortons Gap figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Hopkins County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Mortons Gap.
Is zoning published for Mortons Gap?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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