Carlisle is a very small city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 2,148 people and two associated neighborhoods, Carlisle is the 190th largest community in Kentucky.Carlisle is a blue-collar town, with 40.59% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Carlisle is a city of service providers, construction workers and builders, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Carlisle who work in healthcare suport services (13.24%), office and administrative support (10.98%), and food service (6.88%). 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, Carlisle has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Carlisle a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. In Carlisle, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 33.46 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. As is often the case in a small city, Carlisle doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.The population of Carlisle has a very low overall level of education: only 8.40% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher. The per capita income in Carlisle in 2022 was $25,702, 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 $102,808 for a family of four. However, Carlisle contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Carlisle home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Carlisle residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Carlisle include Irish, English, German, Dutch, and Scottish. The most common language spoken in Carlisle is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
