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Lexington-Fayette Southeast CCD, Fayette County, KY

73,922 Population
56 square miles 1,320.6 people per square mile

Census data: ACS 2024 5-year unless noted

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Demographics

34.4 ±0.8 Median age
  • a little less than the figure in Fayette County: 35.3 ±0.1
  • about 90 percent of the figure in Kentucky: 39.1 ±0.1
  • about 90 percent of the figure in United States: 38.9 ±0.1

Economics

$42,124 ±$2,009 Per capita income
  • a little less than the amount in Fayette County: $43,790 ±$977
  • about 20 percent higher than the amount in Kentucky: $35,821 ±$245
  • a little less than the amount in United States: $44,673 ±$122
$67,448 ±$3,882 Median household income
  • a little less than the amount in Fayette County: $69,479 ±$1,691
  • a little higher than the amount in Kentucky: $63,726 ±$429
  • about 80 percent of the amount in United States: $80,734 ±$166

14.4% ±2.2% (10,560  ±1,669) Persons below poverty line
  • a little less than the rate in Fayette County: 14.9% 46,481 (±0.9% / ±2,735)
  • about 90 percent of the rate in Kentucky: 16.1% 708,321 (±0.3% / ±11,594)
  • about 20 percent higher than the rate in United States: 12.5% 40,735,660 (±0.1% / ±275,861)

22.9 minutes ±1.1 (795,860  ±55,030) Mean travel time to work
  • about 10 percent higher than the figure in Fayette County: 20.9 3,077,325 (±0.5 / ±84,928)
  • a little less than the figure in Kentucky: 24 43,402,560 (±0.2 / ±384,929)
  • about 90 percent of the figure in United States: 26.4 3,569,606,700 (±0 / ±5,719,373)

Families

32,992 ±929 Number of households
  • Fayette County: 139,715 ±787
  • Kentucky: 1,814,469 ±5,224
  • United States: 129,227,496 ±209,365
2.2 ±0.1 (73,386  ±2,851) Persons per household
  • about the same as the figure in Fayette County: 2.2 311,089 (±0 / ±203)
  • about 90 percent of the figure in Kentucky: 2.4 4,413,943
  • about 90 percent of the figure in United States: 2.5 326,722,430

7.2% ±2.1% (1,364  ±401) Women 15-50 who gave birth during past year
  • about 25 percent higher than the rate in Fayette County: 5.7% † 4,755 (±0.7% / ±582)
  • about 1.3 times the rate in Kentucky: 5.4% 55,780 (±0.2% / ±1,896)
  • about 1.4 times the rate in United States: 5.1% 4,009,203 (±0% / ±20,898)

Housing

35,111 ±871 Number of housing units
  • Fayette County: 148,959 ±115
  • Kentucky: 2,023,116 ±474
  • United States: 143,775,360 ±10,234

$271,700 ±$10,126 Median value of owner-occupied housing units
  • about 90 percent of the amount in Fayette County: $293,500 ±$5,552
  • about 1.3 times the amount in Kentucky: $205,600 ±$1,096
  • about 80 percent of the amount in United States: $332,700 ±$236

17.8% ±1.9% (12,915  ±1,439.6) Moved since previous year
  • about 90 percent of the rate in Fayette County: 20.2% 64,453 (±1% / ±3,095.1)
  • about 1.4 times the rate in Kentucky: 12.5% 560,545 (±0.2% / ±9,289)
  • about 1.5 times the rate in United States: 12.3% 40,747,183 (±0% / ±136,530.8)

Social

94.1% ±1.9% (46,320  ±1,737) High school grad or higher
  • about the same as the rate in Fayette County: 92.1% 194,889 (±1.6% / ±3,383.5)
  • a little higher than the rate in Kentucky: 88.9% 2,753,821 (±0.4% / ±12,191.4)
  • a little higher than the rate in United States: 89.6% 206,814,894 (±0.1% / ±283,951.7)
47.2% ±2% (23,227  ±1,245.9) Bachelor's degree or higher
  • about the same as the rate in Fayette County: 48.3% 102,165 (±1.2% / ±2,483.7)
  • more than 1.5 times the rate in Kentucky: 27.6% 853,791 (±0.2% / ±7,457.5)
  • about 1.3 times the rate in United States: 35.7% 82,363,217 (±0.1% / ±182,857.7)

N/A Persons with language other than English spoken at home

10.3% ±1.7% (7,631  ±1,277) Foreign-born population
  • about 90 percent of the rate in Fayette County: 11.9% 38,570
  • more than double the rate in Kentucky: 4.7% 211,210
  • about three-quarters of the rate in United States: 14.1% 47,349,080

5.6% ±0.6% (3,177  ±379) Population with veteran status
  • about 10 percent higher than the rate in Fayette County: 5% 12,848 (±0.4% / ±896)
  • about 80 percent of the rate in Kentucky: 6.5% 228,692 (±0.1% / ±3,138)
  • about 90 percent of the rate in United States: 6.2% 16,185,883 (±0% / ±45,251)
3,177 Total veterans ±379 2,776 Male ±330 401 Female ±152

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