Boyd is a very small town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 1,757 people and two associated neighborhoods, Boyd is the 742nd largest community in Texas.When you are in Boyd, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 38.83% of Boyd’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Boyd is a town of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Boyd who work in office and administrative support (14.66%), sales jobs (12.01%), and management occupations (9.92%). It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Boyd has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Boyd has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Boyd than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Boyd may be for you. One downside of living in Boyd, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 34.29 minutes every day commuting to work. Being a small town, Boyd does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The rate of college-level education in Boyd is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 12.12% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree. The per capita income in Boyd in 2022 was $30,744, which is middle income relative to Texas, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $122,976 for a family of four. However, Boyd contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Boyd is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Boyd home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Boyd residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Boyd also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 27.96% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Boyd include Irish, German, English, Danish, and Scottish. The most common language spoken in Boyd is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.
