Marion is a very small city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 2,894 people and four associated neighborhoods, Marion is the 139th largest community in Kentucky.Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Marion is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Marion is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Marion who work in food service (21.68%), office and administrative support (9.03%), and sales jobs (8.94%). 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, Marion has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Marion a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. Being a small city, Marion does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The citizens of Marion have a very low rate of college education: just 9.77% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities. The per capita income in Marion in 2022 was $28,641, which is middle income relative to Kentucky, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $114,564 for a family of four. However, Marion contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Marion home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Marion residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Marion include Irish, English, German, European, and Scots-Irish. The most common language spoken in Marion is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.
