State or territory · Census 2020–2024
Median rent and rent burden in Kentucky
- Median monthly gross rent
- $967 ± $5 margin
- Rent burden · 30% or more
- 45.4% ± 0.6 percentage points
- Severe burden · 50% or more
- 22.7% ± 0.5 percentage points
How much income would keep this rent at 30%?
The area’s median gross rent would equal 30% of an annual household income of $38,680. The calculation multiplies monthly rent by 12 and divides by 0.30.
Compare with broader areas
| Area | Median gross rent ± margin | Rent burden | Severe burden |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | $967 ± $5 | 45.4% | 22.7% |
| United States | $1,413 ± $2 | 51.1% | 25.9% |
Browse counties in Kentucky
- Adair County$771 median gross rent · 47.9% rent burden
- Allen County$844 median gross rent · 42.1% rent burden
- Anderson County$927 median gross rent · 45.8% rent burden
- Ballard County$817 median gross rent · 34.8% rent burden
- Barren County$796 median gross rent · 46% rent burden
- Bath County$659 median gross rent · 31.4% rent burden
- Bell County$592 median gross rent · 54.9% rent burden
- Boone County$1,373 median gross rent · 40.3% rent burden
- Bourbon County$822 median gross rent · 36.8% rent burden
- Boyd County$849 median gross rent · 47.8% rent burden
- Boyle County$778 median gross rent · 48.7% rent burden
- Bracken County$756 median gross rent · 41% rent burden
- Breathitt County$548 median gross rent · 49.9% rent burden
- Breckinridge County$733 median gross rent · 42.7% rent burden
- Bullitt County$987 median gross rent · 45.1% rent burden
- Butler County$679 median gross rent · 37.2% rent burden
- Caldwell County$767 median gross rent · 41.1% rent burden
- Calloway County$870 median gross rent · 41.1% rent burden
- Campbell County$1,145 median gross rent · 49.1% rent burden
- Carlisle County$792 median gross rent · 39.2% rent burden
- Carroll County$910 median gross rent · 33.6% rent burden
- Carter County$740 median gross rent · 48.7% rent burden
- Casey County$670 median gross rent · 57% rent burden
- Christian County$1,040 median gross rent · 45.6% rent burden
- Clark County$938 median gross rent · 51.4% rent burden
- Clay County$724 median gross rent · 65.2% rent burden
- Clinton County$617 median gross rent · 45.3% rent burden
- Crittenden County$714 median gross rent · 20.2% rent burden
- Cumberland County$523 median gross rent · 36.7% rent burden
- Daviess County$918 median gross rent · 41.8% rent burden
- Edmonson County$778 median gross rent · 27.7% rent burden
- Elliott County$432 median gross rent · 44.5% rent burden
- Estill County$711 median gross rent · 43.8% rent burden
- Fayette County$1,164 median gross rent · 49.7% rent burden
- Fleming County$715 median gross rent · 53.4% rent burden
- Floyd County$672 median gross rent · 43.5% rent burden
- Franklin County$967 median gross rent · 43.6% rent burden
- Fulton County$570 median gross rent · 54.3% rent burden
- Gallatin County$832 median gross rent · 37.3% rent burden
- Garrard County$794 median gross rent · 48.7% rent burden
- Grant County$862 median gross rent · 35.2% rent burden
- Graves County$775 median gross rent · 46.4% rent burden
- Grayson County$658 median gross rent · 33.8% rent burden
- Green County$610 median gross rent · 37.4% rent burden
- Greenup County$860 median gross rent · 43.6% rent burden
- Hancock County$740 median gross rent · 36.2% rent burden
- Hardin County$971 median gross rent · 36.6% rent burden
- Harlan County$678 median gross rent · 48.3% rent burden
- Harrison County$765 median gross rent · 42% rent burden
- Hart County$693 median gross rent · 35.5% rent burden
- Henderson County$777 median gross rent · 43.7% rent burden
- Henry County$895 median gross rent · 57.7% rent burden
- Hickman County$718 median gross rent · 24% rent burden
- Hopkins County$837 median gross rent · 48.9% rent burden
- Jackson County$665 median gross rent · 44.6% rent burden
- Jefferson County$1,149 median gross rent · 47.2% rent burden
- Jessamine County$1,124 median gross rent · 40.7% rent burden
- Johnson County$708 median gross rent · 42.5% rent burden
- Kenton County$1,069 median gross rent · 43.8% rent burden
- Knott County$756 median gross rent · 49.3% rent burden
- Knox County$681 median gross rent · 46.5% rent burden
- Larue County$860 median gross rent · 47.5% rent burden
- Laurel County$813 median gross rent · 40.8% rent burden
- Lawrence County$760 median gross rent · 45.5% rent burden
- Lee County$603 median gross rent · 64.5% rent burden
- Letcher County$669 median gross rent · 48% rent burden
- Lewis County$751 median gross rent · 27.5% rent burden
- Lincoln County$698 median gross rent · 41.9% rent burden
- Livingston County$926 median gross rent · 49.4% rent burden
- Logan County$751 median gross rent · 37.6% rent burden
- Lyon County$747 median gross rent · 36.2% rent burden
- Madison County$889 median gross rent · 44.7% rent burden
- Magoffin County$730 median gross rent · 57% rent burden
- Marion County$726 median gross rent · 40.3% rent burden
- Marshall County$798 median gross rent · 51.4% rent burden
- Mason County$727 median gross rent · 41.6% rent burden
- McCracken County$898 median gross rent · 43.6% rent burden
- McCreary County$577 median gross rent · 46.5% rent burden
- McLean County$641 median gross rent · 40.1% rent burden
- Meade County$1,026 median gross rent · 38.8% rent burden
- Menifee County$675 median gross rent · 48% rent burden
- Mercer County$831 median gross rent · 36.9% rent burden
- Metcalfe County$582 median gross rent · 43.8% rent burden
- Monroe County$657 median gross rent · 40.1% rent burden
- Montgomery County$830 median gross rent · 28.1% rent burden
- Morgan County$663 median gross rent · 34.2% rent burden
- Muhlenberg County$718 median gross rent · 39.7% rent burden
- Nelson County$1,008 median gross rent · 50.8% rent burden
- Nicholas County$728 median gross rent · 41.6% rent burden
- Ohio County$739 median gross rent · 32% rent burden
- Oldham County$1,219 median gross rent · 43.3% rent burden
- Owen County$830 median gross rent · 41.6% rent burden
- Pendleton County$793 median gross rent · 37.5% rent burden
- Perry County$798 median gross rent · 59.8% rent burden
- Pike County$858 median gross rent · 47.6% rent burden
- Powell County$747 median gross rent · 63.7% rent burden
- Pulaski County$803 median gross rent · 50% rent burden
- Rockcastle County$676 median gross rent · 44.4% rent burden
- Rowan County$825 median gross rent · 46.6% rent burden
- Russell County$681 median gross rent · 43.7% rent burden
- Scott County$1,247 median gross rent · 41.4% rent burden
- Shelby County$1,033 median gross rent · 39.4% rent burden
- Simpson County$1,012 median gross rent · 44.5% rent burden
- Spencer County$987 median gross rent · 45% rent burden
- Taylor County$718 median gross rent · 45.2% rent burden
- Todd County$851 median gross rent · 38.8% rent burden
- Trigg County$803 median gross rent · 46.7% rent burden
- Trimble County$863 median gross rent · 28.5% rent burden
- Union County$790 median gross rent · 33.6% rent burden
- Warren County$1,002 median gross rent · 47.9% rent burden
- Washington County$744 median gross rent · 52.2% rent burden
- Wayne County$727 median gross rent · 39.6% rent burden
- Webster County$783 median gross rent · 19.7% rent burden
- Whitley County$798 median gross rent · 46.2% rent burden
- Wolfe County$501 median gross rent · 59% rent burden
- Woodford County$1,138 median gross rent · 48.6% rent burden
Data and definitions
How to read the estimates
The Census Bureau’s 2020–2024 American Community Survey five-year release provides these survey estimates. America.co matched Census rent tables by geography ID and used the Gazetteer’s representative points to calculate straight-line distance.
- Gross rent includes contract rent and utilities or fuels paid separately. The median describes cash-rent homes surveyed during this period.
- Rent burden means gross rent was at least 30% of household income. Severe rent burden means at least 50%. Both shares use only cash-rent households for which Census could compute the ratio.
- Margins use the Census 90% confidence level. The rent margin is published by Census. The burden margins are approximate and combine the published category margins using the Census sum and proportion formulas. County and ZIP-area pages require at least 100 estimated households with a computed ratio, a rent margin at most 35% of the estimate, and a rent-burden margin of 20 percentage points or less.
- ZIP areas are Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas. A mailing ZIP can differ or have no corresponding Census area. Distances are straight-line distances between representative points.
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