Leitchfield is a somewhat small city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 6,463 people and four associated neighborhoods, Leitchfield is the 68th largest community in Kentucky.Leitchfield is a blue-collar town, with 36.58% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Leitchfield is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Leitchfield who work in sales jobs (13.76%), office and administrative support (12.55%), and healthcare (8.61%). The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Leitchfield has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Leitchfield a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. One of the benefits of Leitchfield is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 17.23 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. Being a small city, Leitchfield does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The rate of college-level education in Leitchfield is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.87% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree. The per capita income in Leitchfield in 2022 was $25,084, which is middle income relative to Kentucky, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $100,336 for a family of four. However, Leitchfield contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Leitchfield home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Leitchfield residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Leitchfield include English, Irish, German, French, and Polish. The most common language spoken in Leitchfield is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.