Burnside is a tiny city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 718 people and two associated neighborhoods, Burnside is the 298th largest community in Kentucky.Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Burnside is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Burnside is a city of sales and office workers, managers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Burnside who work in management occupations (18.18%), office and administrative support (12.81%), and sales jobs (11.16%). 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!) Burnside 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. Burnside has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Burnside than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Burnside may be for you. One of the benefits of Burnside is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 18.12 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. Being a small city, Burnside does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The citizens of Burnside are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.45% of adults in Burnside have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree The per capita income in Burnside in 2022 was $28,473, which is middle income relative to Kentucky, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $113,892 for a family of four. However, Burnside contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Burnside home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Burnside residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Burnside include English, Irish, German, French, and Italian. The most common language spoken in Burnside is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
