Residents will find that the city is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Kirbyville is worth considering.
One downside of living in Kirbyville is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Kirbyville, the average commute to work is 30.25 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small city, Kirbyville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The rate of college-level education in Kirbyville is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 11.18% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Kirbyville in 2022 was $21,380, which is low income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $85,520 for a family of four. However, Kirbyville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Kirbyville also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 34.30% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Kirbyville is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Kirbyville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Kirbyville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Kirbyville also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 12.83% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Kirbyville include Irish, English, European, German, and French.
The most common language spoken in Kirbyville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
