Salyersville is a very small city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 1,499 people and five associated neighborhoods, Salyersville is the 220th largest community in Kentucky.Salyersville is a blue-collar town, with 44.64% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Salyersville is a city of professionals, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Salyersville who work in teaching (14.03%), management occupations (10.97%), and sales jobs (7.14%). Of important note, Salyersville is also a city of artists. Salyersville has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Salyersville’s character. 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, Salyersville has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Salyersville a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. Salyersville 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.In Salyersville, just 10.27% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%. The per capita income in Salyersville in 2022 was $18,762, which is low income relative to Kentucky and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $75,048 for a family of four. However, Salyersville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Salyersville also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 58.23% of its population below the federal poverty line. The people who call Salyersville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Salyersville residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Salyersville include Irish, English, German, Scottish, and Welsh. The most common language spoken in Salyersville is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and African languages.
