[2] Hancock County is included in the Owensboro, KY Metropolitan Statistical Area.

The Hancock County Board of Education consists of 4 public school systems.

NHES replaced the previously outdated Lewisport Elementary School with a newly constructed $8,829,532 building.

[3] The county is named for John Hancock, President of the Continental Congress and one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.

21.20% of all households were made up of individuals, and 8.90% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

The county gave Barack Obama a majority of the votes in 2008, but went back to Republican hands in 2012, and has stayed that way since.