Calvert City is a very small city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 2,517 people and two associated neighborhoods, Calvert City is the 160th largest community in Kentucky.Unlike some cities, Calvert City isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Calvert City are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Calvert City is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Calvert City who work in office and administrative support (23.18%), sales jobs (8.95%), and food service (6.86%). 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!) Calvert City 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. Calvert City has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Calvert City than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Calvert City may be for you. One of the benefits of Calvert City is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 18.99 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.The education level of Calvert City citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 22.57% of adults in Calvert City have at least a bachelor's degree. The per capita income in Calvert City in 2022 was $28,306, 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 $113,224 for a family of four. However, Calvert City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Calvert City home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Calvert City residents report their race to be White, followed by Native Hawaiian. Important ancestries of people in Calvert City include Irish, German, English, Italian, and Scottish. The most common language spoken in Calvert City is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
