Adolphus, Kentucky.
Typical home $192,191 (-8.6% in a year). Bowling Green, KY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$484 (+92%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $18,005 -9%
- $210,197$192,191 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $34 -0%
- $192,226$192,191 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.
- Adolphus$1,009
- Kentucky$1,212
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Adolphus, KY fell 8.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Adolphus, Allen County, Kentucky
The Census does not count Adolphus on its own, so the figures here are Allen County's. Half the county's households earn more than $61,403 a year and half less; 14% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 74% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in Allen County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 2.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Allen County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Adolphus is a small town in Allen County, in south-central Kentucky. Across the county, winters are cold, summers are warm, and snowfall is light, though the area gets more rain and melted snow over the year than most of the country. Across Allen County, most homes are lived in by their owners, a larger share than across the country.
Work. Across Allen County, job numbers have risen, and unemployment has eased over the past year. Schools, hospitals and social care, manufacturing, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment are the main places residents work. Incomes are below the national typical level, more residents live below the poverty line than across the country, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree or work from home than across the country.
Things to do. Red River is a river a longer drive away, and Lost River Cave is a protected area in the same range of distance. The National Corvette Museum is a museum a longer drive away, and Beech Bend Park is an amusement park, also a longer drive away.
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- 8,035households
- 40.7median age
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Allen County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Allen County had 5,159 jobs in 2025, 2.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 45° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 65°. About 8 inches of snow and 54 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Scottsville weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Allen County
- ScottsvilleGeneral warehousing and storage566
- JM Smucker CompanyFrozen food entrees, packaged, manufacturing510
- Allen County SchoolsSchool district443FTE
- Sumitomo SV5Connectors and terminals for electrical devices manufacturing288
- THE Medical Center at ScottsvilleCritical access hospital122FTE
- Food LionGrocery stores85
- Cal Turner Rehab and Specialty CareSkilled nursing facilities75
- HG Staffing ScottsvillePlacement agencies or services, employment61
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 12 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,016 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Allen County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very low. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Allen County and the Bowling Green, KY metro.
Adolphus home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Adolphus$192,191
- Kentucky$230,909
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Adolphus9
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Adolphus address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Adolphus — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.