Bowling Green is also a college town, where lots of students live while attending area colleges. Because of the high percentage of people living in Bowling Green enrolled in college, Bowling Green has a number of services, amenities and opportunities geared towards the needs and activities of students.
Not only is Bowling Green a city with many college students, but it also retains many recent graduates who are looking to start new careers, creating a decent-sized population of people who are young, single, educated, and upwardly-mobile. This makes it a good choice for other relocating single professionals. Here, these young singles will find many others like themselves, with opportunities for friendships, socializing, romance, and fun.
In terms of college education, Bowling Green is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 30.98% of adults in Bowling Green have a college degree.
The per capita income in Bowling Green in 2022 was $28,088, which is upper middle income relative to Kentucky, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $112,352 for a family of four. However, Bowling Green contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Bowling Green is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Bowling Green home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bowling Green residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Bowling Green include English, German, Irish, Italian, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Bowling Green is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Serbo-Croatian.
