McKee is a tiny city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 831 people and three associated neighborhoods, McKee is the 277th largest community in Kentucky.Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, McKee is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, McKee is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in McKee who work in management occupations (17.14%), sales jobs (16.73%), and food service (15.10%). Also of interest is that McKee has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. Overall, McKee’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern. 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, McKee has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes McKee a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of McKee spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 18.54 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the city are less than they would otherwise be. Being a small city, McKee does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.In McKee, just 8.95% 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 McKee in 2022 was $15,116, which is low income relative to Kentucky and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $60,464 for a family of four. McKee also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 44.54% of its population below the federal poverty line. The people who call McKee home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of McKee residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in McKee include English, Irish, German, Scottish, and Italian. The most common language spoken in McKee is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Greek.
