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.Flat Lick is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Flat Lick is a town of service providers, construction workers and builders, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Flat Lick who work in healthcare suport services (40.88%), computer science and math (28.47%), and office and administrative support (0.00%). 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. Flat Lick’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live. 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. In Flat Lick, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 31.37 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. Flat Lick is a very car-oriented town. 100.00% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Flat Lick is a small town , and most people who live here have to drive out of town for work, and the town population is not large nor dense enough to support an extensive public transportation system. Flat Lick has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well. As is often the case in a small town, Flat Lick doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.The population of Flat Lick has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 0.00% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%. 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.
