Beattyville is a very small city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 2,148 people and three associated neighborhoods, Beattyville is the 187th largest community in Kentucky.Beattyville is a blue-collar town, with 40.65% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Beattyville is a city of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Beattyville who work in office and administrative support (24.63%), sales jobs (15.13%), and maintenance occupations (4.45%). Beattyville’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live. 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, Beattyville has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Beattyville a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. Being a small city, Beattyville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.Beattyville ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 4.46% of people over 25 have a college degree. The per capita income in Beattyville in 2022 was $11,489, which is low income relative to Kentucky and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $45,956 for a family of four. Beattyville also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 40.35% of its population below the federal poverty line.Beattyville is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Beattyville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Beattyville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Beattyville include English, German, Irish, French, and Albanian. The most common language spoken in Beattyville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Langs. of India and Italian.
