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.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Salyersville is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 44.64% of the Salyersville workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 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.The rate of college-level education in Salyersville is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.27% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree. 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.
