The overall crime rate in Albany 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, 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.
Residents of the city have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 19.15 minutes getting to work every day.
Being a small city, Albany does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Albany are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.91% of adults in Albany have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Albany in 2022 was $25,808, which is middle income relative to Kentucky, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $103,232 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, Scottish, and German.
The most common language spoken in Albany is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
