42101
Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Bowling Green, Warren County, KY · Bowling Green, KY metro · population 65,421
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$669 (+119%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $497 +0%
- $233,593$234,091 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $50,216 +27%
- $183,875$234,091 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- 42101$1,229
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in zip 42101 rose 0.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in zip 42101 rose 1.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in zip 42101 runs $469/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $504 in Oct 2023.
That is $1,603 a month against $1,135 rent: a $1,229 mortgage payment, plus $124 property tax and $251 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — zip 42101
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$1,603
- Renting$1,135
- Mortgage only$1,229
Property tax · $124/mo 0.64% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for 3 counties
Insurance & upkeep · $251/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
This zip spans 3 counties: Warren County, KY 89% · Edmonson County, KY 8% · Butler County, KY 3%
Zillow also publishes an index for the city itself: Bowling Green, KY — measured over the city limits, which is a different area from this zip.
Asking rent — 42101
Against the Bowling Green, KY metro and the national benchmark.
- 42101$1,135
- Bowling Green$1,215
- United States$1,932
Typical home value — 42101
Mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- 42101$234,091
- Bowling Green$257,589
- United States$366,157
Within 20 miles
| Miles sorted ascending, activate to sort descending | Zip activate to sort by Zip | City activate to sort by City | Population activate to sort by Population | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10.7 | 42274 | Rockfield | 2,157 | — | $285,783 |
| 11.3 | 42275 | Roundhill | 855 | — | $165,852 |
| 11.4 | 42103 | Bowling Green | 21,911 | $1,310 | $359,849 |
| 13.1 | 42104 | Bowling Green | 42,076 | $1,295 | $320,504 |
| 13.6 | 42159 | Oakland | 1,699 | — | $285,938 |
| 13.8 | 42210 | Brownsville | 4,231 | — | $190,767 |
| 15.2 | 42261 | Morgantown | 9,641 | — | $174,601 |
| 15.8 | 42122 | Alvaton | 5,513 | $995 | $403,576 |
| 16.0 | 42170 | Woodburn | 1,938 | — | $286,150 |
| 16.9 | 42285 | Sweeden | 531 | — | $168,245 |
| 17.3 | 42171 | Smiths Grove | 6,723 | — | $253,659 |
| 18.5 | 42206 | Auburn | 5,897 | — | $236,151 |
| 19.8 | 42207 | Bee Spring | 927 | — | $188,461 |
Coordinates and population from SimpleMaps US Zips (Basic). Rent and home values from Zillow Research.