Pine Knot is a very small town located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 1,380 people and two associated neighborhoods, Pine Knot is the 234th largest community in Kentucky.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Pine Knot is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 50.53% of the Pine Knot workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Pine Knot is a town of production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Pine Knot who work in office and administrative support (13.16%), farm management occupations (9.74%), and healthcare (6.05%). A relatively large number of people in Pine Knot telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 11.73% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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. Pine Knot’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live. It is a fairly quiet town 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!) Pine Knot 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. Pine Knot has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Pine Knot than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Pine Knot may be for you. Pine Knot is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.The citizens of Pine Knot are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.36% of adults in Pine Knot have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree The per capita income in Pine Knot in 2022 was $18,825, which is low income relative to Kentucky and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $75,300 for a family of four. Pine Knot also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 48.34% of its population below the federal poverty line. The people who call Pine Knot home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pine Knot residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Pine Knot include German, English, Irish, Scottish, and Scandinavian. The most common language spoken in Pine Knot is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and African languages.
