Hyden is a tiny city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 293 people and two associated neighborhoods, Hyden is the 356th largest community in Kentucky.Hyden is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 88.56% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Hyden is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Hyden who work in teaching (34.75%), sales jobs (14.41%), and office and administrative support (10.17%). Also of interest is that Hyden has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. Hyden’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live. Being a small city, Hyden does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The citizens of Hyden are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 37.53% of adults in Hyden have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree. The per capita income in Hyden in 2022 was $29,221, which is upper middle income relative to Kentucky, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $116,884 for a family of four. However, Hyden contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Hyden is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Hyden home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Hyden residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Hyden also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 11.88% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Hyden include Irish, English, Scots-Irish, German, and Scottish. The most common language spoken in Hyden is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Tagalog.
