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Louisville, KY
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Louisville profile


Living in Louisville



Louisville is a relatively large city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 628,594 people and 180 associated neighborhoods, Louisville is the largest community in Kentucky.

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

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 10.08% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.

Louisville is one of the most attractive larger cities for people who are young, single, educated, and upwardly-mobile career starters. This makes it a good place to live for young singles in their 20s and 30s and who have undergraduate or graduate degrees and are starting their professional careers. Although Louisville is a large city, this demographic is significant enough that young professionals will find many others like themselves here, with really good opportunities for friendships, recreation, romance, and more.

In terms of college education, Louisville is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 32.89% of adults in Louisville have a college degree.

The per capita income in Louisville in 2018 was $37,176, which is wealthy relative to Kentucky, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $148,704 for a family of four. However, Louisville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Louisville is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Louisville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Louisville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Louisville include German, Irish, English, Italian, and African.

The most common language spoken in Louisville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.