Beattyville is a very small city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 2,146 people and three associated neighborhoods, Beattyville is the 187th largest community in Kentucky.When you are in Beattyville, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 36.08% of Beattyville’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Beattyville is a city of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Beattyville who work in office and administrative support (21.13%), sales jobs (19.33%), and healthcare (5.41%). Overall, Beattyville’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern. 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. Beattyville 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.The population of Beattyville has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 4.25% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%. The per capita income in Beattyville in 2022 was $11,251, which is low income relative to Kentucky and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $45,004 for a family of four. Beattyville also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 49.19% 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, Albanian, and French. The most common language spoken in Beattyville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Langs. of India and Italian.
