Argillite, Kentucky.
Typical home $144,029 (-3.9% in a year). Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$373 (+97%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $5,899 -4%
- $149,929$144,029 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $20,075 +16%
- $123,955$144,029 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.
- Argillite$756
- Kentucky$1,212
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 23 years.
Typical home values in Argillite, KY fell 3.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Argillite, Greenup County, Kentucky
The Census does not count Argillite on its own, so the figures here are Greenup County's. Half the county's households earn more than $60,751 a year and half less; 15% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 80% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. Unemployment in Greenup County was 5.4% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most people in Greenup County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Argillite is a small town in Greenup County, in northeastern Kentucky. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and the typical residents are older than across the country as a whole. Household incomes are lower than the country's typical level, and more people live in poverty than across the country, while the typical home value is modest by national standards.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in factories, and in the building trades. Unemployment in the county was lower this year than a year earlier, and the number of jobs held about steady over the past year. Few adults hold a four-year degree compared with most of the country, and few people work from home, so most commute to a workplace. Commutes are generally shorter than in the country's large cities.
Things to do. Greenbo Lake State Resort Park, a protected area a short drive away, offers a lakeside setting for time outdoors. The Little Sandy River, also a short drive away, is a river for those who enjoy the water. Carter Caves State Resort Park, a protected area a longer drive away, and the Huntington Museum of Art, a museum a longer drive away, are further afield for a day trip.
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- 14,739households
- 44.2median age
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Greenup County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Greenup County had 7,006 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 63°. About 18 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Grayson East weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Greenup County
- Greenup County SchoolsSchool district458FTE
- Russell Independent SchoolsSchool district318FTE
- Graf Brothers FlooringWood flooring manufacturing315
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter157
- CintasGeneral warehousing & storage152
- Raceland-Worthington Independent SchoolsSchool district151FTE
- Kroger Mid-Atlantic KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores113
- Superior Environmental Solutions - GreenupEnvironmental remediation services110
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 14 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,250 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Greenup County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Greenup County and the Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH metro.
Argillite home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Argillite$144,029
- 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.
Zip codes with a Argillite address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Argillite — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Argillite
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 41144 | Greenup | 9,064 | — | $147,235 |
| 41121 | Argillite | 1,382 | — | $158,369 |