Hawesville is a very small city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 1,012 people and two associated neighborhoods, Hawesville is the 256th largest community in Kentucky.When you are in Hawesville, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 36.74% of Hawesville’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Hawesville is a city of production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Hawesville who work in office and administrative support (19.45%), healthcare (8.64%), and community and social services (5.89%). The overall crime rate in Hawesville 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. The city 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, Hawesville has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Hawesville a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. One of the benefits of Hawesville is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 18.47 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, Hawesville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.In terms of college education, Hawesville is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 19.75% of adults 25 and older in Hawesville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Hawesville in 2022 was $33,234, 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 $132,936 for a family of four. However, Hawesville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Hawesville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Hawesville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Hawesville include Irish, German, English, French, and Belgian. The most common language spoken in Hawesville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
