Ekron is a tiny city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 170 people and two associated neighborhoods, Ekron is the 391st largest community in Kentucky.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Ekron is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 46.43% of the Ekron workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Ekron is a city of service providers, construction workers and builders, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ekron who work in healthcare suport services (15.48%), maintenance occupations (8.33%), and sales jobs (7.14%). A relatively large number of people in Ekron telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 12.35% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes. Overall, Ekron’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern. 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!) Ekron 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. Ekron has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Ekron than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Ekron may be for you. Being a small city, Ekron does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.Ekron ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 2.48% of people over 25 have a college degree. The per capita income in Ekron in 2022 was $19,635, which is lower middle income relative to Kentucky, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $78,540 for a family of four. Ekron also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 30.22% of its population below the federal poverty line. The people who call Ekron home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ekron residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Ekron include Irish, German, English, European, and Dutch. The most common language spoken in Ekron is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
