Danville-Boyle County, KY

Community Overview

Named one of America's Best Places to Live by Livability.com

Danville-Boyle County is affectionately called “the class of the bluegrass,” offering a nice retreat from the hustle and bustle of everyday life. The county’s economy is primarily based on manufacturing, and its quaint attractions include antique stores, bed-and-breakfast inns and Civil War re-enactments. Danville was established in 1787 and has been featured in Time magazine as one of America’s most successful small towns. And on the football field, Boyle County and Danville high schools have won 15 state football championships between them.

Population
County Population: 28,664 Boyle
City Population: 15,385 Danville

Detailed Demographics Infomation

Climate
July High Temperature: 86 degrees F
January Low Temperature: 24 degrees F

Danville's winter lasts around three months, with temperatures below freezing, and summer temps can range as high as the low 90s. The area has a long growing season and sees little annual snowfall, usually around a foot.

Schools
Danville schools employ 193 certified employees (teachers and administrators) and 177 support personnel employees. Forty-one percent of certified staff have master's degrees or Rank 2, and 34 percent have attained Kentucky's highest certification level or Rank 1. Danville currently has six national board-certified teachers and several in the certification process. Certified guidance counselors provide for other areas of special needs.

Education Statistics

Health Care
Danville is a regional center for health care and has been since 1809, when Dr. Ephraim McDowell performed the world's first successful abdominal surgery. His patients included a young James Knox Polk of Tennessee, who later became the country’s 11th president. Close to 100 independent physicians in 26 specialties are affiliated with Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center, a modern 187-bed integrated health-care delivery system that offers a full array of ancillary services and state-of-the-art procedures and techniques to the residents of a six-county area. The hospital also operates convenient outpatient facilities for diagnostic testing and physician care. Preventive health is emphasized through health education and wellness programs at McDowell Wellness Center, where hospital-based physical, occupational and speech/language therapy services are offered.

Neighborhoods
Danville/Boyle County was named one of Money magazine's "best places to live" in 2007.

Average Home Prices and Rent Payments

Business Climate
Danville's Main Street program is designed to improve all aspects of the downtown or central business district, producing both tangible and intangible benefits. Improving economic management, strengthening public participation and making downtown a fun place to visit are as critical to Main Street's future as recruiting new businesses, rehabilitating buildings and expanding parking. Kentucky has the 13th-lowest overall business cost in the nation. Kentucky has the fourth-lowest cost for industrial electrical power. Half of the U.S. population is within 600 miles of the area.

Workforce and Labor Statistcs

Culture
Danville is a true "city of firsts." Boyle County's first post office west of the Allegheny Mountains is at Constitution Square. The city also is home to the world's first successful abdominal surgery. Penn's Store, listed as the oldest country store in America, still is operated by the same family.

Local Attractions

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