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Flat Lick, KY
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Flat Lick is a tiny town located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 850 people and two associated neighborhoods, Flat Lick is the 273rd largest community in Kentucky.

Also of interest is that Flat Lick has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Overall, Flat Lick’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

The town 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, Flat Lick has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Flat Lick a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

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 31.37 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 $6,485, which is low income relative to Kentucky and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $25,940 for a family of four. Flat Lick also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 73.61% 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.


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