Clarkson is a tiny city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 967 people and three associated neighborhoods, Clarkson is the 263rd largest community in Kentucky.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Clarkson is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 46.69% of the Clarkson workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Clarkson is a city of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Clarkson who work in sales jobs (16.72%), management occupations (11.15%), and office and administrative support (5.92%). Of important note, Clarkson is also a city of artists. Clarkson has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Clarkson’s character. One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 8.13% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes. The overall crime rate in Clarkson is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime. 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!) Clarkson 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. Clarkson has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Clarkson than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Clarkson may be for you. Clarkson 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.Clarkson ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 5.62% of people over 25 have a college degree. The per capita income in Clarkson in 2022 was $29,054, which is upper middle income relative to Kentucky, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $116,216 for a family of four. However, Clarkson contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Clarkson also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 32.28% of its population below the federal poverty line.Clarkson is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Clarkson home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Clarkson residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Clarkson include Irish, English, German, Italian, and Northern European. The most common language spoken in Clarkson is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.
