City · Marshall County, Kentucky

Calvert City, Kentucky

Calvert City is a city in Marshall County, Kentucky. It has 2,526 residents. Calvert City, Kentucky has a quality-of-life score of 37 out of 100 (low), ranking #9,886 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Kentucky it ranks #92 of 243 cities and towns. It ranks best on violent crime rate (low), time spent in the emergency room (low) and social associations (high). It ranks worst on suicide rate (high), mental health providers (low) and comfortable days (low).

37Low

Quality-of-life score: #9,886 of 15,651 cities and towns
Kentucky: #92 of 243 in KY
Population: 2,526 (2020-2024)
Land area: 18 mi²
Density: 141.4 /mi²
FIPS code: 2112016

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 72 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety56#6,903/15,637
Economy34#10,375/15,631
Housing71#4,272/14,977
Health15#13,307/15,609
Healthcare26#11,509/15,650
Environment14#13,326/15,453
Education36#9,964/15,649
Infrastructure36#9,978/15,650
Community69#4,834/15,651
Leisure & amenities80#3,169/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Calvert City, Kentucky ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Marshall County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Violent crime rate · low38 /100k
99/100Kentucky 212 /100kUnited States 328 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationMarshall County value
Time spent in the emergency room · low92 min
98/100Kentucky 153 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesMarshall County value
Social associations · high18.3 /10k
97/100Kentucky 10.3 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMarshall County value
Average commute time · low17.5 min
92/100Kentucky 24.0 minUnited States 26.4 min2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B08013
Effective property tax rate · low0.45%
91/100Kentucky 0.75%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Grocery stores · high2.5 /10k
89/100Kentucky 1.6 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsMarshall County value

Weaknesses

Suicide rate · high47.3 /100k
1/100Kentucky 18.0 /100kUnited States 14.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataMarshall County value
Mental health providers · low35 /100k
3/100Kentucky 329 /100kUnited States 348 /100k2025University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMarshall County value
Comfortable days · low22.5%
5/100Kentucky 23.7%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationMarshall County value
Depression · high30.0%
5/100Kentucky 27.4%United States 20.7%2022Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Distance to an airport · high107 mi
8/100Kentucky 44 miUnited States 33 mi2025Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauMarshall County value
Hospital quality rating · low2.0
9/100Kentucky 2.8United States 3.2Jul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesMarshall County value

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
40.8% (2015-2019) → 69.8% (2020-2024)
+29 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
2.0× (2015-2019) → 3.4× (2020-2024)
+67%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
27.0% (2015-2019) → 35.7% (2020-2024)
+8.7 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
16.0% (2015-2019) → 22.8% (2020-2024)
+6.8 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
Child poverty rateImproving
20.3% (2015-2019) → 13.8% (2020-2024)
−6.5 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
78.2% (2015-2019) → 83.9% (2020-2024)
+5.7 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Calvert City, Kentucky improved on 1 of 11 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 9 moved within the margin of error and 1 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved1

Bachelor's++6.8 points16.0% → 22.8%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 11 measures

Change of every measure of Calvert City, Kentucky between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	19.6 min2015-2019	17.5 min2020-2024	−2.1 min	Within the margin of error	71%
Bachelor's degree or higher	16.0%2015-2019	22.8%2020-2024	+6.8 points	Improved	78%
Broadband subscriptions	78.2%2015-2019	83.9%2020-2024	+5.7 points	Within the margin of error	36%
Effective property tax rate	0.80%2015-2019	0.45%2020-2024	−0.3 points	Little change	80%
High school diploma or higher	88.5%2015-2019	90.7%2020-2024	+2.2 points	Within the margin of error	61%
Home price to income ratio	2.0×2015-2019	3.4×2020-2024	+1.4×	Within the margin of error	12%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4012015-2019	0.4522020-2024	+0.051	Within the margin of error	16%
Median household income	$52,4462015-2019	$48,9062020-2024	−6.7%	Within the margin of error	4%
Poverty rate	15.4%2015-2019	12.8%2020-2024	−2.5 points	Within the margin of error	66%
Rent as share of income	27.0%2015-2019	35.7%2020-2024	+8.7 points	Within the margin of error	11%
Rent-burdened households	40.8%2015-2019	69.8%2020-2024	+29 points	Within the margin of error	3%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Calvert City, Kentucky five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Calvert City, Kentucky in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, Calvert City, Kentucky itself moved −18.2 points in standing on average over the same 10 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

2,526 residents (±30)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

1,115 households (±148)

Calvert City, Kentucky
Kentucky share

Under $25k22%†248
$25k–50k28%†313
$50k–75k

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

1,115 households (±148)

Calvert City, Kentucky
Kentucky share

Own57%634
Rent43%†481

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Own (−19.2 points).

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

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Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

1,183 workers (±138)

Calvert City, Kentucky
Kentucky share

Drive alone86%1,020
Carpool9.3%†110
Public transit0.6%†

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Marshall County, the county holding most of Calvert City's residents.

Marshall County has 734 employer establishments, 232 for every 10,000 residents (0.93× the US rate of 248; 1.12× Kentucky's), with 9,645 paid employees at an average annual pay of $62,264. The Census Bureau also counts 2,366 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 734; 2,366 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 232; US 248 · Kentucky 207
Paid employees: 9,645
Average annual pay: $62,264; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Marshall County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Specialty trade contractors	64	20.2	1.30×More than typical	731	$69,438	224
Restaurants and other eating places	49	15.5	0.84×About typical	854	$17,083	4
Religious organizations	46	14.5	2.62×More than typical	333	$22,712	—
Ambulatory health care services	39	12.3	0.59×Fewer than typical	218	$50,344	95
Building equipment contractors	35	11	1.83×More than typical	479	$72,420	30
Construction of buildings	26	8.2	1.08×About typical	360	$74,997	86
Limited-service restaurants	25	7.9	0.98×About typical	500	$16,624	3
Full-service restaurants	22	6.9	0.90×About typical	338	$17,811	—
Lessors of real estate	22	6.9	0.56×Fewer than typical	65	$36,477	200
Truck transportation	22	6.9	1.37×More than typical	90	$58,111	45
Offices of other health practitioners	19	6	0.99×About typical	71	$38,690	35
Traveler accommodation	19	6	3.32×More than typical	151	$22,457	10

Rank places for an industry Open Marshall County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 31,705 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $0 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Calvert City, Kentucky: $0 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $0
Per resident: $0; US $1,994
Sole-source: —; US 30%
Single offer: —; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Top recipients

DAV ENERGY SOLUTIONS, INC.$00.0%

Spending by fiscal year

1.5KFY2020
236KFY2023
0FY2024
0FY2026

What was bought

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Calvert City, Kentucky, so they do not add up across cities.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Calvert City is mostly in Marshall County.

See federal money in Marshall County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Calvert City, Kentucky is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

James ComerR-KY-1 · 100% of residentsWith party 99%Missed 2.4%

Senate

Explore Congress The 2026 races

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Marshall County55100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Marshall County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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