Evarts is a tiny city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 601 people and two associated neighborhoods, Evarts is the 272nd largest community in Kentucky.Evarts is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Evarts is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Evarts who work in sales jobs (22.54%), office and administrative support (20.23%), and maintenance occupations (12.14%). Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 11.18% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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. 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!) Evarts 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. Evarts has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Evarts than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Evarts may be for you. Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Evarts spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 18.30 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the city are less than they would otherwise be. Evarts 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 rate of college-level education in Evarts is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.94% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree. The per capita income in Evarts in 2022 was $14,773, which is low income relative to Kentucky and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $59,092 for a family of four. Evarts also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 35.36% of its population below the federal poverty line. The people who call Evarts home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Evarts residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Evarts include English, Irish, European, German, and Welsh. The most common language spoken in Evarts is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.
