Todd County, KY
Demographic and economic profile of Todd County, KY, sourced from the US Census Bureau (American Community Survey) via Data USA.
AI Overview
Todd County, KY is a small rural county of 12,330 residents with a median household income of $61,103 and median worker earnings of $40,935, pointing to a modest but cost-competitive labor market where median home values sit at $157,400 and median gross rent runs $841 per month. The workforce is limited in size, with a labor force participation rate of 56.2% and only 15.9% holding a bachelor's degree or higher, though the unemployment rate is low at 3.4%. Population has been essentially flat, declining 0.2% over five years, and a poverty rate of 21.7% signals economic stress alongside the county's otherwise low-cost profile.
Claude Sonnet 4.6 · generated Jul 6, 2026 · derived from cached Census, BEA & ACS data on this page
Population Growth (5-year)
-0.2% since 2018
Todd County lost population at this rate over the prior 5-year ACS5 window.
Demographics
Race & Ethnicity
- White Alone10,554 (84.6%)
- Black or African American Alone835 (6.7%)
- Some Other Race Alone484 (3.9%)
- Two Races Excluding Some Other Race, & Three or More Races370 (3.0%)
- Two Races Including Some Other Race198 (1.6%)
- Asian Alone23 (0.2%)
Top Languages Spoken at Home
- 1.German or other West Germanic789
- 2.Spanish418
- 3.French (incl. Cajun, Haitian)5
- 4.Korean2
Economy
Cost of Living Index
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Top Industries
- 1.Educational Services, & Health Care & Social Assistance1,091
- 2.Manufacturing (Group)1,074
- 3.Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing & Hunting, & Mining677
- 4.Retail Trade (Group)571
- 5.Transportation & Warehousing, & Utilities525
Top Occupations
- 1.Management, Business, Science, & Arts Occupations1,782
- 2.Production, Transportation, & Material Moving Occupations1,401
- 3.Sales & Office Occupations948
- 4.Natural Resources, Construction, & Maintenance Occupations634
- 5.Service Occupations476
Specialized Industries (Location Quotient)
- 1.Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing & Hunting, & Mining (LQ 7.56×)619
- 2.Manufacturing (LQ 2.25×)1,148
- 3.Transportation, Warehousing, & Utilities (LQ 1.43×)429
- 4.Other Services (LQ 1.02×)246
- 5.Educational Services & Health Care (LQ 0.97×)1,166
Housing
Education
Workforce
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Data: US Census Bureau American Community Survey, served via Data USA and the Census Bureau API. See each metric tile for the specific dataset.