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Fort Knox, KY
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Living in Fort Knox



Fort Knox is a somewhat small town located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 7,742 people and three associated neighborhoods, Fort Knox is the 57th largest community in Kentucky.

Fort Knox is a military town: the armed forces employs 32.47% of the workforce, making the military a major focus of life in the city. In the civilian sector, Healthcare and Retail are important in the local economy and are the town’s largest civilian employers, employing 20.65% and 18.99% of the civilian workforce respectively.

Also of interest is that Fort Knox has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Overall, Fort Knox’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

One of the benefits of Fort Knox is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 13.53 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.

Fort Knox is one of the most well-educated cities in the nation. 40.70% of adults in Fort Knox have at least a bachelor's degree. Compare that to the average community in America, which has just 21.84% with a bachelor's degree or higher.

The per capita income in Fort Knox in 2018 was $31,450, which is upper middle income relative to Kentucky, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $125,800 for a family of four. However, Fort Knox contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Fort Knox is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Fort Knox home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Fort Knox residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Fort Knox also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 25.94% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Fort Knox include English, German, Irish, Norwegian, and European.

The most common language spoken in Fort Knox is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.