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Owensboro venue facts

County

Daviess County, Kentucky

Trial court of general jurisdiction

Circuit Court

Sources: Kentucky Court of Justice, About the Courts: the trial courts are Circuit Court, its Family Court division and District Court; the Kentucky Court of Appeals is the lower appellate court; the Supreme Court of Kentucky is the court of last resort (reviewed 2026-10-12); Kentucky Court of Justice, Circuit Court: the court of general jurisdiction, hearing civil matters involving more than $5,000, felonies and divorces; Family Court is a division of Circuit Court with primary jurisdiction in cases involving families and children in counties that have one (reviewed 2026-10-12); Kentucky Court of Justice, Family Court: a division of Circuit Court whose cases include dissolution of marriage, spousal support and child custody, support and visitation (reviewed 2026-10-12); Kentucky Court of Justice, District Court: the court of limited jurisdiction, handling civil cases of $5,000 or less, small claims of $2,500 or less, misdemeanors, juvenile matters and probate of wills (reviewed 2026-10-12)

Appellate court

Kentucky Court of Appeals

Federal districts

Eastern District of Kentucky; Western District of Kentucky

Forums and agencies in Kentucky

Workers' compensation claims arising in Kentucky are heard before the Kentucky Department of Workers' Claims; the Kentucky Office of Vocational Rehabilitation (OVR) is Kentucky's public vocational rehabilitation agency. Attorneys confirm the governing rule for their case.

Sources: Kentucky Education and Labor Cabinet, Department of Workers' Claims (reviewed 2026-09-11)

Commuting flows, Daviess County

In the 2016-2020 American Community Survey commuting flows, the largest flows of workers into Daviess County came from Ohio County (2,155 workers), McLean County (1,178) and Spencer County, Indiana (858), and the largest flows out of Daviess County went to Hancock County (1,075 workers), Henderson County (862) and Ohio County (691).

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, 2016-2020 American Community Survey, county-to-county commuting flows (Table 1) (reviewed 2026-09-13)