Vanceburg is a very small city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 1,401 people and two associated neighborhoods, Vanceburg is the 231st largest community in Kentucky.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Vanceburg is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 40.38% of the Vanceburg workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Vanceburg is a city of service providers, professionals, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Vanceburg who work in food service (10.94%), healthcare suport services (10.94%), and office and administrative support (10.57%). Of important note, Vanceburg is also a city of artists. Vanceburg has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Vanceburg’s character. Overall, Vanceburg’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern. 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!) Vanceburg 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. Vanceburg has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Vanceburg than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Vanceburg may be for you. Being a small city, Vanceburg does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The citizens of Vanceburg have a very low rate of college education: just 9.06% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities. The per capita income in Vanceburg in 2022 was $21,073, which is lower middle income relative to Kentucky, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $84,292 for a family of four. Vanceburg also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 40.27% of its population below the federal poverty line. The people who call Vanceburg home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Vanceburg residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Vanceburg include German, Irish, English, French, and European. The most common language spoken in Vanceburg is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and African languages.
