Despite being a small city, Bovey has a lot of people using the bus to get to and from work every day. Most of these people on the bus are using it to get to good jobs in other cities.
The percentage of people in Bovey with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.72% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Bovey in 2022 was $28,950, which is low income relative to Minnesota, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $115,800 for a family of four. However, Bovey contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Bovey is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Bovey home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bovey residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Bovey include German, Irish, Swedish, Finnish, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Bovey is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.
