Overall, Inez’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!) Inez 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. Inez has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Inez than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Inez may be for you.
Residents of the city have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 13.00 minutes getting to work every day.
Being a small city, Inez does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The education level of Inez citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 18.67% of adults 25 and older in Inez have a college degree.
The per capita income in Inez in 2022 was $38,191, which is wealthy relative to Kentucky, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $152,764 for a family of four. However, Inez contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Inez also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 31.69% of its population below the federal poverty line.
The people who call Inez home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Inez residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Inez include English, Irish, Scottish, Scots-Irish, and British.
The most common language spoken in Inez is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and African languages.
