The population of Boyd county is estimated at 48,196. In 2017 there were 565 births and 574 deaths in Boyd county. Boyd county has 8,404 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 5,517 that are owned free and clear and 5,866 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Boyd County filed 19,030 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 1.0% of all Kentucky filings and 0.013% of the entire nation. Boyd had a combined total federal tax liability of $148,805,000 on earned income of $978,195,000. Other notable statistics from Boyd County were 1,040 unemployment claims which collected a total of $7,182,000 and 3,430 charitable contributions valued at $16,377,000. 3,860 filings from Boyd County paid a combined total of $9,037,000 in property taxes and 3,280 filings paid $17,508,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Boyd county had 109 religious congregations with an estimated 29,012 members.
19.4% of the Boyd population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 11.2% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 42% of Boyd County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 1,403 votes.
At $40,752 the median income is 84.3% of the Kentucky average. An estimated 1,320 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Boyd, the equivalant of around 7.1% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 8.2%.

Top 15 Industries in Boyd County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
7,292	Health care and social assistance
3,719	Retail trade
2,798	Manufacturing
2,704	Accommodation and food services
2,463	Restaurants and other eating places
1,303	Ambulatory health care services
1,273	General merchandise stores
1,188	Limited-service restaurants
1,012	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
947	Administrative and support services
928	Other services (except public administration)
915	Offices of physicians
904	Wholesale trade
768	Transportation and warehousing
720	Professional, scientific, and technical services

In 2018 the average price reduction was 4.38% in Boyd County.

In 2018 10.70% of listings in Boyd County (averaging across 2 zip codes; 41101 and 41102) dropped their price.

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