Ken Caryl is a medium-sized town located in the state of Colorado. With a population of 30,838 people and five constituent neighborhoods, Ken Caryl is the 21st largest community in Colorado.

Ken Caryl is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 85.57% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Ken Caryl is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ken Caryl who work in office and administrative support jobs (15.31%), sales jobs (15.08%), and management occupations (13.79%).

Also of interest is that Ken Caryl has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

In addition, Ken Caryl is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates." Urban sophisticates are educated, wealthy, executives and professionals, who have urbane tastes in books, food, and travel, whether they actually live in a big city, or choose to reside in a small town. In big or medium-sized cities, urban sophisticates tend to frequent art institutions such as opera, symphonies, ballet, live theatre, and museums.

Because of many things, Ken Caryl is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Ken Caryl really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Ken Caryl perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic night life, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

"If you live in Ken Caryl, you are going to have to drive to get to work," say area residents. At least that is what most Ken Caryl residents do (97%). Ken Caryl is primarily built for cars, and driving around town will bare this out. Shopping centers, parking lots, strip malls, and wide streets are what you'll find. Sidewalks? Sure. But not everywhere, and walking to most places can be downright scary.

The town of Ken Caryl is a decent size, but despite this, it doesn't have a viable public transit system that people can use to get to work.

Ken Caryl Information and Demographics

The education level of Ken Caryl citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (14.96%): 39.35% of adults in Ken Caryl have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Ken Caryl in 2000 was $27,931, which is wealthy relative to Colorado and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $111,724 for a family of four. However, Ken Caryl contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Ken Caryl home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Ken Caryl is White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Ken Caryl include German, Irish, English, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Scottish, and French.

The most common language spoken in Ken Caryl is English. Some people also speak Spanish.