The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Boyd has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Boyd a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Boyd, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.49 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 citizens of Boyd have a very low rate of college education: just 9.57% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.
The per capita income in Boyd in 2022 was $29,391, 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 $117,564 for a family of four. However, Boyd contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Boyd is a very 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 27.73% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Boyd include Irish, German, English, Dutch, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Boyd is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.
