The overall crime rate in Flat Lick 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.
It is a fairly quiet town 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!) Flat Lick 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. Flat Lick has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Flat Lick than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Flat Lick may be for you.
One downside of living in Flat Lick is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Flat Lick, the average commute to work is 32.40 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Flat Lick is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Flat Lick isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 100.00% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.
Being a small town, Flat Lick does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Flat Lick ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 0.00% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Flat Lick in 2022 was $5,643, which is low income relative to Kentucky and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $22,572 for a family of four. Flat Lick also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 100.00% of its population below the federal poverty line.
The people who call Flat Lick home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Flat Lick residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Flat Lick include Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, West Indian, U.S. Virgin Islander, and Trinidadian and Tobagonian.
The most common language spoken in Flat Lick is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.
