Overall, Pine Knot’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 town 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, Pine Knot has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Pine Knot a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small town, Pine Knot does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Pine Knot has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 1.88% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Pine Knot in 2022 was $15,580, which is low income relative to Kentucky and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $62,320 for a family of four. Pine Knot also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 52.91% of its population below the federal poverty line.
The people who call Pine Knot home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pine Knot residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Pine Knot include English, German, Irish, Scottish, and Scandinavian.
The most common language spoken in Pine Knot is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and African languages.
