Stanford is a very small city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 3,698 people and three associated neighborhoods, Stanford is the 117th largest community in Kentucky.Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Stanford is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Stanford is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Stanford who work in sales jobs (13.29%), office and administrative support (8.71%), and healthcare (7.29%). And if you like science, one thing you'll find is that Stanford has lots of scientists living in town - whether they be life scientists, physical scientists (like astronomers), or social scientists (like geographers!). So, if you're scientific-minded, you might like it here too. Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 8.73% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes. 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!) Stanford 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. Stanford has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Stanford than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Stanford may be for you. Being a small city, Stanford does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The citizens of Stanford are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 15.94% of adults in Stanford have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree The per capita income in Stanford in 2022 was $29,577, which is upper middle income relative to Kentucky, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $118,308 for a family of four. However, Stanford contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Stanford is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Stanford home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Stanford residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Stanford include English, Irish, German, European, and Scottish. The most common language spoken in Stanford is English. Other important languages spoken here include French and Other Indo-European.
