1,700 people (2024 Census estimate, −5.7% since 2020)
539 square miles of land · 3 people per square mile
“Highest” and “lowest” are just order, not grades: a high rank for poverty or hazard losses means more of it. Each figure's source is in its section below.
7 active community water systems list Boyd County in the area they serve, reporting 1,458 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| BOYD CO RWD 2 groundwater · local government · NE3120036 | 490 served |
| SPENCER, VILLAGE OF buys groundwater · local government · NE3101507 | 350 served |
| BUTTE, VILLAGE OF groundwater · local government · NE3101503 | 204 served |
| LYNCH, VILLAGE OF buys groundwater · local government · NE3101504 | 198 served |
| NAPER, VILLAGE OF groundwater · local government · NE3101505 | 100 served |
| BRISTOW, VILLAGE OF buys groundwater · local government · NE3101502 | 65 served |
| BOYD CO RWD #1 groundwater · local government · NE3120306 | 51 served |
Source: U.S. EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), active community systems, . Look up any system's violations and test results with EPA's search using its ID.
About 0 people were held in Boyd County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (1978). In 1970 it was about 0.
Source: Vera Institute of Justice, Incarceration Trends (built from federal Bureau of Justice Statistics jail surveys). Counties without their own jail, or that share one, may show no figure.
1 school district has its office in Boyd County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $6.8 million — $6.3 million to run schools, about $18,793 per student, plus $199,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $4.7 million local (mostly property tax), $1 million state, $495,000 federal.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 Annual Survey of School System Finances. Districts are listed by the county of their main office; some serve neighboring counties too.
Source: County Health Rankings & Roadmaps 2025 (University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute), which gathers federal data (CDC, Census, and others); measures cover different recent years. Blank lines aren't reported for small counties.
Overall risk: Very Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Boyd County about $3.5 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Low; social vulnerability: Very Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
65 bridges in Boyd County: 54 in good condition, 10 fair, and 1 poor (1.5%). “Poor” means a main part — the deck, the beams, or the supports — is rated 4 or lower on the federal 0–9 scale. It doesn't mean unsafe to drive; unsafe bridges are closed.
| TOWNSHIP ROAD over STREAM · built 1935 | 20 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $12.9 million of work in Boyd County in fiscal 2025, about $7,140 per resident — to the county, cities, schools, hospitals, nonprofits and others.
Source: USAspending.gov, grants by place of performance, fiscal 2025 (Oct. 2024 to Sept. 2025). Search it by county to see each award.
From Grants.gov: posted grants listing county governments as eligible, soonest deadline first; research-only and overseas programs left out; list updated 2026-10-13, refreshed weekly. 62 are open in all. Cities, towns, school districts and nonprofits have their own lists there.
Registration deadlines, early voting and polling places for Nebraska are on the federal site vote.gov, which links to the state's official election office.
The budget, property tax rates, audits, local officials and offices for Boyd County come from the county's own records, which we haven't gathered — not gathered, never hidden. See what a full county site looks like, or ask to have Boyd County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Charles Mix County, SD (23 mi) · Gregory County, SD (29 mi) · Holt County (30 mi) · Douglas County, SD (40 mi) · Bon Homme County, SD (45 mi) · Rock County (48 mi).