Olive Hill is a very small city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 1,546 people and five associated neighborhoods, Olive Hill is the 224th largest community in Kentucky.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Olive Hill is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 36.88% of the Olive Hill workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Olive Hill is a city of service providers, professionals, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Olive Hill who work in maintenance occupations (13.76%), management occupations (11.35%), and food service (10.92%). 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!) Olive Hill 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. Olive Hill has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Olive Hill than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Olive Hill may be for you. Being a small city, Olive Hill does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The percentage of adults in Olive Hill who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 17.81% of the adults in Olive Hill have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Olive Hill in 2022 was $34,679, 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 $138,716 for a family of four. However, Olive Hill contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Olive Hill home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Olive Hill residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Olive Hill include English, Irish, Swedish, Scots-Irish, and Scottish. The most common language spoken in Olive Hill is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
