Boyd County, Kentucky

• White (non-Hispanic) 44,178 92.2%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 873 1.8%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 1,097 2.3%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 172 0.4%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,515 3.2%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 44 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 8 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 24 0.1%

• Under 18 10,159 21.2%
• 18–24 3,506 7.3%
• 25–44 11,808 24.6%
• 45–64 12,613 26.3%
• 65 and over 9,825 20.5%

Median household income

$61,094

90% interval $57,337–$64,851

−$3,387 vs KY · 52nd of 120

Below poverty line

18.0%

90% interval 14.8%–21.2%

+2.6 pp vs KY · 48th of 120

Unemployment (12-mo)

5.2%

+0.79 pp vs. state

County GDP

$3.8B

1.27% of state

Avg. annual pay

$61,721

Establishments

1,799

• Education & health services 9,664 36.5%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 4,997 18.9%
• Leisure & hospitality 3,210 12.1%
• Professional & business services 2,203 8.3%
• Construction 1,655 6.3%
• Public administration 1,380 5.2%
• Financial activities 818 3.1%
• Other services 658 2.5%

The sectors listed cover 92.9% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

70.2%

+1.9 pp vs KY · 89th of 120

Median gross rent

$849

−$118 vs KY · 35th of 120

Owner-occupied

13,549

Renter-occupied

5,760

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 68% of the county workforce. Most panelists likely share employer relationships within these sectors, surface those connections early in voir dire before any institutional-defendant or sector-specific framing.

• Moderate wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Construction, $81,834/yr) pays 3.6× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $22,655/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 15 workers, a mix of institutional employers and small businesses. Both employed-by-large-institution and small-business-owner perspectives are likely on the panel.

• Republican 14,363 68.6%
• Democratic 6,291 30.0%
• Other / third-party 297 1.4%

• Spanish 469 1.0%
• German or other West Germanic 110 0.2%
• Tagalog 33 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 32 0.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 25 0.1%
• Chinese 8 0.0%

Households

19,309

Family households

12,451

64.5% of households

Married couples w/ children

2,769

22.2% of families

Single-mother families

1,522

12.2% of families

Veterans

3,238

8.6% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 19,027 39.4%
• Mainline Protestant 4,348 9.0%
• Catholic 950 2.0%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 716 1.5%
• Black Protestant 202 0.4%

Health insured

95.6%

±0.7 pp

Uninsured

4.4%

±0.7 pp

97th of 120

With a disability

22.4%

±1.4 pp

46th of 120

Bachelor's or higher

20.0%

±1.9 pp

−7.6 pp vs KY · 34th of 120

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

7.1%

90% interval 6.3%–7.9% · Census SAHIE

The under-65 uninsured rate is not comparable to the ACS insurance figures, which cover all ages.

Trial court

32nd Judicial Circuit Court

Judges

2 (Circuit Court judges per circuit (general civil + felony criminal jurisdiction; civil amount-in-controversy > $5,000); District Court judges (limited jurisdiction) separate. Vintage 2026 kycourts.gov; shaded-bench counts per Wikipedia 'Kentucky Circuit Courts' judge-count map, with the three '6 or more' circuits (16th Kenton, 22nd Fayette, 30th Jefferson) hard-pinned to 6, 9, and 23 respectively per Wikipedia footnote 4. Mid-range single-county metro and exurban-cluster circuits are conservative midpoints; verify against KRS § 23A.040 before relying on exact counts.)

Court seats

Catlettsburg

Traffic fatalities

2

5.3 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

2