Booneville is a tiny city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 163 people and two associated neighborhoods, Booneville is the 394th largest community in Kentucky.Unlike some cities, Booneville isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Booneville are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Booneville is a city of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Booneville who work in community and social services (26.44%), office and administrative support (19.54%), and personal care services (14.94%). It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Booneville has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Booneville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Booneville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Booneville may be for you. Residents of the city have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 13.02 minutes getting to work every day. Being a small city, Booneville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The percentage of people in Booneville with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.83% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Booneville in 2022 was $27,820, 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 $111,280 for a family of four. However, Booneville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Booneville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Booneville residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Booneville include English, Irish, Scots-Irish, Scottish, and Yugoslavian. The most common language spoken in Booneville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and African languages.
