Albany is a very small city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 1,733 people and four associated neighborhoods, Albany is the 208th largest community in Kentucky.Albany is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Albany is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Albany who work in office and administrative support (16.14%), sales jobs (12.53%), and maintenance occupations (9.02%). Of important note, Albany is also a city of artists. Albany has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Albany’s character. Overall, Albany’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 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, Albany has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Albany a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. Albany is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.The percentage of adults in Albany who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 18.69% of the adults in Albany have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Albany in 2022 was $22,092, 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 $88,368 for a family of four. However, Albany contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Albany home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Albany residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Albany include English, Irish, Scots-Irish, German, and Scottish. The most common language spoken in Albany is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
