Clay City is a very small city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 1,188 people and two associated neighborhoods, Clay City is the 244th largest community in Kentucky.When you are in Clay City, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 56.99% of Clay City’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Clay City is a city of transportation and shipping workers, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Clay City who work in sales jobs (13.57%), management occupations (6.89%), and business and financial occupations (5.43%). Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 8.26% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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. Being a small city, Clay City does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.Clay City ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 5.28% of people over 25 have a college degree. The per capita income in Clay City in 2022 was $15,078, which is low income relative to Kentucky and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $60,312 for a family of four. Clay City also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 47.69% of its population below the federal poverty line.Clay City is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Clay City home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Clay City residents report their race to be White. Clay City also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 11.61% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Clay City include English, Irish, German, Italian, and European. The most common language spoken in Clay City is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Armenian.
