Overall, Liberty’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
Being a small city, Liberty does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The rate of college-level education in Liberty is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 12.40% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Liberty in 2022 was $19,718, 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 $78,872 for a family of four. However, Liberty contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Liberty also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 30.06% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Liberty is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Liberty home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Liberty residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Liberty also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 10.72% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Liberty include English, Irish, German, Scottish, and African.
The most common language spoken in Liberty is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
