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!) Olive Hill 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. Olive Hill has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Olive Hill than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Olive Hill may be for you.
One of the benefits of Olive Hill is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 17.77 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.
Olive Hill 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 citizens of Olive Hill are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 22.73% of adults in Olive Hill having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Olive Hill in 2022 was $35,930, which is upper middle income relative to Kentucky, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $143,720 for a family of four. However, Olive Hill contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Olive Hill home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Olive Hill residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Olive Hill include English, Irish, Scottish, German, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in Olive Hill is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
