Overall, Liberty’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, Liberty has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Liberty a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
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 18.34 minutes getting to work every day.
Being a small city, Liberty does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The rate of college-level education in Liberty is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.61% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an 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.
