State safety & data profile

KentuckyKY

50 cities with population 10,000+. Government data from the Census Bureau, CDC, and CMS, with the per-city tables and rankings below.

Data updated 2026-09-13
50
Cities tracked
2.5M
Residents
$63,523
Avg income
188
Violent / 100K

Kentucky at a glance

Areazine tracks 50 cities across Kentucky, led by Louisville (624K residents) - each with federal health, economic and safety data and live government alerts.

624K
largest: Louisville
$209,441
avg home value

FBI UCR crime reporting is voluntary and incomplete, so this rate reflects reported incidents, not a definitive measure of danger, and city-level rankings below can omit non-reporting agencies entirely.

Where Kentucky ranks on income, nationally

Average of city median household incomes vs. all 50 states + DC

$63,523 Bottom 10% higher than 10% of 51 states

Kentucky $0 $120,000 every U.S. state, bucketed by value

Each bar is a $10,000-wide band; taller bars hold more states. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (city aggregates) · 2024 ACS 5-year

Does income track with home value across states?

Kentucky sits at the 10th percentile nationally for average city income but the 8th percentile for average city home value, tracking closely with the rest of the country: income and home value move roughly together here.

Average city income vs. average city home value, all 51 states

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (state-level averages of city medians) 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 51 entities by Avg. city median income (X) and Avg. city home value (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High income, high valueLow income, high valueHigh income, low valueLow income, low value $40,000$60,000$80,000$100,000$120,000$140,000 $0$200,000$400,000$600,000$800,000$1,000,000 Avg. city median income Avg. city home value Alabama - Avg. city median income: $70510, Avg. city home value: $241926Alaska - Avg. city median income: $90867, Avg. city home value: $322520Arizona - Avg. city median income: $83363, Avg. city home value: $402836Arkansas - Avg. city median income: $62110, Avg. city home value: $199918California - Avg. city median income: $106297, Avg. city home value: $806321Colorado - Avg. city median income: $103249, Avg. city home value: $581886Connecticut - Avg. city median income: $86836, Avg. city home value: $370691Delaware - Avg. city median income: $90251, Avg. city home value: $339836District of Columbia - Avg. city median income: $109870, Avg. city home value: $737100Florida - Avg. city median income: $79083, Avg. city home value: $391740Georgia - Avg. city median income: $77514, Avg. city home value: $329892Hawaii - Avg. city median income: $106391, Avg. city home value: $801700Idaho - Avg. city median income: $75240, Avg. city home value: $388405Illinois - Avg. city median income: $92752, Avg. city home value: $290962Indiana - Avg. city median income: $69861, Avg. city home value: $210048Iowa - Avg. city median income: $76505, Avg. city home value: $222555Kansas - Avg. city median income: $75814, Avg. city home value: $223172Kentucky - Avg. city median income: $63523, Avg. city home value: $209441Louisiana - Avg. city median income: $62249, Avg. city home value: $218822Maine - Avg. city median income: $70231, Avg. city home value: $324125Maryland - Avg. city median income: $110291, Avg. city home value: $441937Massachusetts - Avg. city median income: $113395, Avg. city home value: $640688Michigan - Avg. city median income: $72594, Avg. city home value: $228149Minnesota - Avg. city median income: $92882, Avg. city home value: $331284Mississippi - Avg. city median income: $55871, Avg. city home value: $183461Missouri - Avg. city median income: $77342, Avg. city home value: $250084Montana - Avg. city median income: $71279, Avg. city home value: $429450Nebraska - Avg. city median income: $71158, Avg. city home value: $214988Nevada - Avg. city median income: $81332, Avg. city home value: $424995New Hampshire - Avg. city median income: $89501, Avg. city home value: $385053New Jersey - Avg. city median income: $114645, Avg. city home value: $498509New Mexico - Avg. city median income: $63338, Avg. city home value: $224896New York - Avg. city median income: $113782, Avg. city home value: $499573North Carolina - Avg. city median income: $77357, Avg. city home value: $319580North Dakota - Avg. city median income: $73701, Avg. city home value: $268956Ohio - Avg. city median income: $75413, Avg. city home value: $217713Oklahoma - Avg. city median income: $63707, Avg. city home value: $189370Oregon - Avg. city median income: $87163, Avg. city home value: $481388Pennsylvania - Avg. city median income: $72422, Avg. city home value: $227498Rhode Island - Avg. city median income: $78641, Avg. city home value: $409591South Carolina - Avg. city median income: $70655, Avg. city home value: $293658South Dakota - Avg. city median income: $66003, Avg. city home value: $243073Tennessee - Avg. city median income: $74373, Avg. city home value: $311240Texas - Avg. city median income: $83513, Avg. city home value: $291478Utah - Avg. city median income: $103705, Avg. city home value: $526990Vermont - Avg. city median income: $81177, Avg. city home value: $370300Virginia - Avg. city median income: $118736, Avg. city home value: $516090Washington - Avg. city median income: $109684, Avg. city home value: $643676West Virginia - Avg. city median income: $57666, Avg. city home value: $167807Wisconsin - Avg. city median income: $82567, Avg. city home value: $283680Wyoming - Avg. city median income: $75348, Avg. city home value: $406050
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (state-level averages of city medians)
Read every state's value (text table)
  • Alabama: $70,510 avg. income, $241,926 avg. home value
  • Alaska: $90,867 avg. income, $322,520 avg. home value
  • Arizona: $83,363 avg. income, $402,836 avg. home value
  • Arkansas: $62,110 avg. income, $199,918 avg. home value
  • California: $106,297 avg. income, $806,321 avg. home value
  • Colorado: $103,249 avg. income, $581,886 avg. home value
  • Connecticut: $86,836 avg. income, $370,691 avg. home value
  • Delaware: $90,251 avg. income, $339,836 avg. home value
  • District of Columbia: $109,870 avg. income, $737,100 avg. home value
  • Florida: $79,083 avg. income, $391,740 avg. home value
  • Georgia: $77,514 avg. income, $329,892 avg. home value
  • Hawaii: $106,391 avg. income, $801,700 avg. home value
  • Idaho: $75,240 avg. income, $388,405 avg. home value
  • Illinois: $92,752 avg. income, $290,962 avg. home value
  • Indiana: $69,861 avg. income, $210,048 avg. home value
  • Iowa: $76,505 avg. income, $222,555 avg. home value
  • Kansas: $75,814 avg. income, $223,172 avg. home value
  • Kentucky: $63,523 avg. income, $209,441 avg. home value
  • Louisiana: $62,249 avg. income, $218,822 avg. home value
  • Maine: $70,231 avg. income, $324,125 avg. home value
  • Maryland: $110,291 avg. income, $441,937 avg. home value
  • Massachusetts: $113,395 avg. income, $640,688 avg. home value
  • Michigan: $72,594 avg. income, $228,149 avg. home value
  • Minnesota: $92,882 avg. income, $331,284 avg. home value
  • Mississippi: $55,871 avg. income, $183,461 avg. home value
  • Missouri: $77,342 avg. income, $250,084 avg. home value
  • Montana: $71,279 avg. income, $429,450 avg. home value
  • Nebraska: $71,158 avg. income, $214,988 avg. home value
  • Nevada: $81,332 avg. income, $424,995 avg. home value
  • New Hampshire: $89,501 avg. income, $385,053 avg. home value
  • New Jersey: $114,645 avg. income, $498,509 avg. home value
  • New Mexico: $63,338 avg. income, $224,896 avg. home value
  • New York: $113,782 avg. income, $499,573 avg. home value
  • North Carolina: $77,357 avg. income, $319,580 avg. home value
  • North Dakota: $73,701 avg. income, $268,956 avg. home value
  • Ohio: $75,413 avg. income, $217,713 avg. home value
  • Oklahoma: $63,707 avg. income, $189,370 avg. home value
  • Oregon: $87,163 avg. income, $481,388 avg. home value
  • Pennsylvania: $72,422 avg. income, $227,498 avg. home value
  • Rhode Island: $78,641 avg. income, $409,591 avg. home value
  • South Carolina: $70,655 avg. income, $293,658 avg. home value
  • South Dakota: $66,003 avg. income, $243,073 avg. home value
  • Tennessee: $74,373 avg. income, $311,240 avg. home value
  • Texas: $83,513 avg. income, $291,478 avg. home value
  • Utah: $103,705 avg. income, $526,990 avg. home value
  • Vermont: $81,177 avg. income, $370,300 avg. home value
  • Virginia: $118,736 avg. income, $516,090 avg. home value
  • Washington: $109,684 avg. income, $643,676 avg. home value
  • West Virginia: $57,666 avg. income, $167,807 avg. home value
  • Wisconsin: $82,567 avg. income, $283,680 avg. home value
  • Wyoming: $75,348 avg. income, $406,050 avg. home value

The quick read

How to read the Kentucky profile without drowning in rankings

The headline numbers above are simple averages of city medians, not population-weighted, use the per-city ranking tables below for place-level work, and the hero aggregates for a quick cross-state benchmark.

The ranking cards further down organize the same underlying data through different lenses: largest, highest income, most affordable, most educated, fastest growing. Each linked ranking page names the sort field and direction so comparisons stay honest across lenses.

Public Safety

Violent Crime
188
per 100k residents
Property Crime
1391
per 100k residents
Assault
146
per 100k
Burglary
200
per 100k

Hospital Quality

Hospitals Tracked
154
across 50 cities
CMS Star Rating
3.2
avg of 110 rated

Top-Rated Hospitals in Kentucky

CMS Hospital Compare star ratings (1-5), Kentucky facilities rated 4 or higher. The rating is a composite across dozens of measures, not adjusted for patient case mix, and not directly comparable across hospital types (a critical-access facility and a large teaching hospital aren't rated on the same measure set). Facilities tied on rating are ordered alphabetically below, not by a finer-grained quality difference.

1 Christ Hospital - Covington
5/5
2 Christ Hospital - Newport
5/5
3 Huntington Va Medical Center - Meads
5/5
4 Louisville Va Medical Center - Fern Creek
5/5
5 Louisville Va Medical Center - Highview
5/5

Largest Cities 10

1 Louisville
624,444
2 Lexington
320,347
3 Lexington-Fayette
314,488
4 Meads
288,649
5 Bowling Green
63,616
6 Owensboro
59,042
7 Covington
40,997
8 Richmond
33,533
9 Georgetown
32,356
10 Florence
32,227

Highest Income 10

1 Burlington
$109,308
2 Fort Thomas
$104,350
3 Independence
$102,361
4 Mount Washington
$96,239
5 Fort Knox
$82,663
6 Saint Matthews
$82,412
7 Jeffersontown
$81,506
8 Georgetown
$80,088
9 Erlanger
$75,840
10 Shelbyville
$75,610

Highest Home Values 10

1 Saint Matthews
$338,000
2 Fort Thomas
$335,000
3 Lyndon
$276,800
4 Mount Washington
$268,200
5 Georgetown
$265,400
6 Independence
$263,700
7 Shelbyville
$257,100
8 Burlington
$254,300
9 Jeffersontown
$250,700
10 Elizabethtown
$245,900

Kentucky City Rankings 9

Community Wellbeing Score in Kentucky Most Affordable Cities in Kentucky Most Expensive Cities in Kentucky Highest Income Cities in Kentucky Largest Cities in Kentucky Fastest Growing Cities in Kentucky Most Educated Cities in Kentucky Lowest Unemployment in Kentucky Youngest Cities in Kentucky

All Cities in Kentucky 50

Louisville 624K Lexington 320K Lexington-Fayette 314K Meads 289K Bowling Green 64K Owensboro 59K Covington 41K Richmond 34K Georgetown 32K Florence 32K Hopkinsville 32K Nicholasville 30K Elizabethtown 30K Henderson 29K Frankfort 28K Jeffersontown 27K Independence 27K Pleasure Ridge Park 26K Paducah 25K Valley Station 23K Radcliff 22K Ashland 21K Newburg 20K Madisonville 20K Murray 19K Erlanger 19K Winchester 18K Fern Creek 18K Saint Matthews 17K Okolona 17K Danville 17K Fort Thomas 16K Burlington 16K Shively 16K Newport 15K Shelbyville 15K Highview 15K Berea 15K Glasgow 14K Mount Washington 14K Fort Campbell North 14K Bardstown 13K Shepherdsville 12K Somerset 11K Lyndon 11K Campbellsville 11K Lawrenceburg 11K Middlesboro 11K Fort Knox 10K Mayfield 10K

Nationwide states with similar city inventory or median income 8

Two Areazine-derived peer sets for Kentucky: nearest states by tracked city count and by average city median household income. These are cross-state neighborhoods, not the in-state city list above.

Similar city inventory

Nearest states by tracked city count (50 here).

Hawaii 51 cities South Carolina 51 cities Mississippi 43 cities Oklahoma 43 cities

Similar median income

Nearest states by average city median household income ($63,523 here).

New Mexico $63,338 Louisiana $62,249 Arkansas $62,110 Indiana $69,861

Using the Kentucky profile

Treat this as a benchmark to drill down from, not a verdict on any one city.

  • Treat the state aggregates as a benchmark only, they are simple averages of city medians, not population-weighted.
  • Drill into a specific Kentucky city for place-level population and economics, plus county-level health and hospital data. Browse cities
  • Rank Kentucky cities on wellbeing, affordability, growth and more. Community rankings

State crime figures are statewide FBI UCR rates; not every city reports comparable city-level crime data.

About this Kentucky profile

The Areazine Kentucky profile is rebuilt every time an upstream federal release ships. Demographic and economic figures advance with the American Community Survey five-year estimate cycle. Health prevalence and access-to-care indicators advance with the CDC PLACES annual release. Hospital quality scores advance with the CMS Hospital Compare quarterly refresh. Crime rates and offense distributions advance with the FBI Crime Data Explorer release. Each individual figure on this page carries its own vintage, named explicitly in the source citation, so the user can verify against the upstream record without having to track our internal refresh schedule.

Cross-checking is encouraged. Every figure on Areazine is built from a publicly available federal source whose primary URL is documented in the methodology pane. If a number on the Kentucky page disagrees with a number you saw elsewhere, the right next step is to compare vintages and field definitions: many discrepancies between data providers reduce to a different release date or a slightly different statistical universe (for example, ACS one-year versus five-year estimates, or UCR offenses-known-to-law-enforcement versus arrest counts). When the field definitions match and the vintages match, federal sources tend to be the canonical reference; Areazine's editorial approach is to surface the canonical number rather than to mediate or smooth.

Data Sources

City population from GeoNames/Census Bureau. Economic data from the Census Bureau American Community Survey (2024 5-year estimates, place geography). Health data from the CDC PLACES program. Hospital ratings from CMS Hospital Compare.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Every figure on Areazine is published directly from official U.S. government sources, no number is typed in by an editor. State profiles are compiled directly from Census Bureau, CDC, CMS, and FBI releases. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026-09-13.