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Hyden city, Kentucky: commercial real estate data.
Hyden city is a Census city of 325 people across 1.30 square miles of land, in Leslie County. Median household income is $56,458, 66.9 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 3 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $600,000.
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Hyden
What Hyden is
- Census place typecity
- Land area1.3 sq mi
- Water area0.04 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land251 plus or minus 92
- County holding the largest share of its areaLeslie County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Hyden
How many people live in Hyden
- Population325 plus or minus 119
- Median age59.8
- Population under 1812 plus or minus 20
- Share under 183.7 percent plus or minus 5.9
- Population 65 and over141 plus or minus 75
- Share 65 and over43.4 percent plus or minus 16.8
- Households133 plus or minus 84
- Family households53 plus or minus 42
- Share of households that are families39.8 percent plus or minus 19.1
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Hyden
Income and work in Hyden
- Median household income$56,458 plus or minus $34,583
- Per capita income$28,644 plus or minus $9,920
- Civilian labor force119 plus or minus 67
- Employed111 plus or minus 65
- Unemployed8 plus or minus 15
- Unemployment rate6.7 percent plus or minus 12.0
- Adults 25 and over259 plus or minus 105
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher79.2 percent plus or minus 44.9
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher42.5 percent plus or minus 15.9
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree5.8 percent plus or minus 5.1
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Hyden
Housing in Hyden
- Housing units157 plus or minus 88
- Occupied units133 plus or minus 84
- Vacant units24 plus or minus 24
- Vacancy rate15.3 percent plus or minus 12.7
- Owner occupied89 plus or minus 62
- Renter occupied44 plus or minus 50
- Ownership rate66.9 percent plus or minus 19.7
- Median owner-occupied home value$109,200 plus or minus $22,223
- Median gross rent, monthly$428 plus or minus $123
- Annual rent as a share of median income9.1 percent plus or minus 6.2
- Single family units113 plus or minus 69
- Share single family72.0 percent plus or minus 17.8
- Units in buildings of two or more39 plus or minus 47
- Share in buildings of two or more24.8 percent plus or minus 26.6
- Mobile homes5 plus or minus 9
- Median year structure built1974
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Hyden
How Hyden gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute91 plus or minus 58
- Commuting under 15 minutes55 plus or minus 38
- Share commuting under 15 minutes60.4 percent plus or minus 16.4
- Commuting 30 minutes or more24 plus or minus 29
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more26.4 percent plus or minus 26.4
- Drove alone72.1 percent plus or minus 27.6
- Carpooled6.3 percent plus or minus 8.2
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked3.6 percent plus or minus 5.0
- Worked from home18.0 percent plus or minus 15.7
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Hyden
SBA loans in Hyden (7(a))
- Approvals3
- Gross approval$600,000
- Average approval$200,000
- Median approval$150,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$300,000
- Largest approval$300,000
- Jobs supported34
- Jobs per approval11.3
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more0.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders3
- Distinct industries by NAICS1
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 0 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a rate over that few outcomes would move several points on one loan.
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release, FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Leslie County, not Hyden
Leslie County context, not Hyden figures
These are Leslie County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Hyden measurements.
- Establishments in Leslie County88
- Employment at those establishments, Leslie County1,125
- Covered employment, Leslie County1,590
- Average annual pay, Leslie County$43,744
- Average weekly wage, Leslie County$841
- County product, 2024, Leslie County$196,848,000
- County product change over the prior year, Leslie County-1.4 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Leslie County$30,368
Every figure in this section is published for Leslie County as a whole and is not a measurement of Hyden. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Hyden questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Hyden, Kentucky?
325, in 133 households. Hyden city covers 1.30 square miles of land, which is 251 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Hyden in?
Leslie County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Hyden?
$56,458. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $109,200. Median gross rent is $428 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Hyden businesses?
3 7(a) approvals totalling $600,000, across 3 lenders, median approval $150,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Hyden, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Hyden borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Hyden. only 0 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a percentage over that few outcomes would move several points on a single loan. The counts are shown instead.
Are the county figures on this page Hyden figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Leslie County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Hyden.
Is zoning published for Hyden?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.