The overall crime rate in Greenup 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.
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, Greenup has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Greenup a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small city, Greenup does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The rate of college-level education in Greenup is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.89% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Greenup in 2022 was $23,044, 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 $92,176 for a family of four. However, Greenup contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Greenup is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Greenup home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Greenup residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Greenup include English, Irish, German, Scottish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Greenup is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
