Liberty’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
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!) Liberty 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. Liberty has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Liberty than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Liberty may be for you.
One of the benefits of Liberty is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 18.34 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.
Liberty is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The percentage of people in Liberty with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.61% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Liberty in 2022 was $19,379, which is low income relative to Kentucky and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $77,516 for a family of four. Liberty also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 32.13% of its population below the federal poverty line.
The people who call Liberty home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Liberty residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Liberty include Irish, English, German, African, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Liberty is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
