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.
