Marion is a very small city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 2,900 people and four associated neighborhoods, Marion is the 139th largest community in Kentucky.When you are in Marion, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 35.12% of Marion’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Marion is a city of service providers, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Marion who work in food service (17.66%), sales jobs (9.62%), and office and administrative support (7.94%). Of important note, Marion is also a city of artists. Marion has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Marion’s character. 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, Marion has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Marion a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. Being a small city, Marion does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.In Marion, just 8.71% 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 Marion in 2022 was $25,336, 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 $101,344 for a family of four. The people who call Marion home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Marion residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Marion include Irish, European, English, German, and Scots-Irish. The most common language spoken in Marion is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
