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 is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Boyd, the average commute to work is 34.98 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
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 are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 15.86% of adults in Boyd have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Boyd in 2022 was $32,543, which is middle income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $130,172 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 Native 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 28.13% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Boyd include Irish, English, German, Scottish, and European.
The most common language spoken in Boyd is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.
