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%). 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, Booneville has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Booneville a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. One of the benefits of Booneville is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 13.02 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result. Being a small city, Booneville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The rate of college-level education in Booneville is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.83% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an 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.
