County · Kentucky

Owsley County

Owsley County is a county located in the Eastern Coalfield region of the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 4,051, making it the second-least populous county in Kentucky. The county seat is Booneville. The county was organized on January 23, 1843, from Clay, Estill, and Breathitt counties and named for William Owsley (1782–1862), the judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals and Governor of Kentucky (1844–48). According to the 2010 census reports, Owsley County has the second-highest level of child poverty of any county in the United States. In terms of income per household, the county is the poorest in the nation. Between 1980 and 2014, the rate of death from cancer in the county increased by 45.6 percent, the largest such increase of any county in the United States.

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City of Booneville pop. 157

Reference data (Census of Governments 2022)

Census ID (PID6): 190350
FIPS state: 21
FIPS county: 189
FIPS place: 99189
Census record name: COUNTY OF OWSLEY
Mailing address: PO BOX 749, BOONEVILLE 41314