McKee is a tiny city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 804 people and three associated neighborhoods, McKee is the 277th largest community in Kentucky.Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, McKee is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, McKee is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in McKee who work in management occupations (17.14%), sales jobs (16.73%), and food service (15.10%). Also of interest is that McKee has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. 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!) McKee 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. McKee has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in McKee than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, McKee 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 18.54 minutes getting to work every day. McKee is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.In McKee, just 8.95% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%. The per capita income in McKee in 2022 was $15,116, which is low income relative to Kentucky and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $60,464 for a family of four. McKee also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 44.54% of its population below the federal poverty line. The people who call McKee home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of McKee residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in McKee include English, Irish, German, Scottish, and Italian. The most common language spoken in McKee is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Greek.
