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Floyds Knobs is an unincorporated community in Lafayette Township, Floyd County, in southern Indiana — it has never been an incorporated town.

The community is named for Colonel Davis Floyd and for the 'knobs,' the steep hills of the Knobstone Escarpment that rise through Floyd County.

James Moore built the first gristmill at Floyds Knobs in 1815, when the area was still frontier farmland.

The historic commercial center of Floyds Knobs stood at the junction of Scottsville Road and Paoli Pike — Old U.S. Highway 150 — the main route between New Albany and Paoli.

Historically a farming community on the outskirts of New Albany, Floyds Knobs has become a bedroom community for Louisville, Kentucky, just across the Ohio River.

The Census Bureau first delineated Floyds Knobs as a census-designated place in the 2022 American Community Survey, so the place has no long census history of its own; the wider Floyds Knobs area, covered by ZIP code 47119, is home to roughly 11,000 to 12,000 people by Census Bureau survey estimates.

Census Bureau survey estimates for the Floyds Knobs area show a high homeownership rate of about 94 percent and a median household income of roughly $113,000.

Floyds Knobs students attend Floyds Knobs Elementary School, Highland Hills Middle School, and Floyd Central High School in the New Albany-Floyd County Consolidated School Corporation.

Floyd County, the community's home county, counted 78,522 people in the 2020 census and is the second-smallest county in Indiana by land area.