It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Kirbyville has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Kirbyville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Kirbyville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Kirbyville may be for you.
In Kirbyville, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 30.25 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly 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 percentage of people in Kirbyville with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.18% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or 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.
