Ary, Kentucky.
Typical home $101,609 (-12.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $21 (-4%) since Feb 2023.
- 1 year
- Down $13,799 -12%
- $115,408$101,609 since Sep 2025
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.
- Ary$533
- Kentucky$1,212
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Ary, KY fell 12.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ary, Perry County, Kentucky
The Census does not count Ary on its own, so the figures here are Perry County's. Half the county's households earn more than $42,181 a year and half less; 27% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 70% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 30% are rented. Unemployment in Perry County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Perry 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ary sits in Perry County in the hills of eastern Kentucky, part of the Appalachian region. Winters are cold, summers are warm, and the county gets a good deal of rain and melted snow across the year. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and many households have incomes below the national typical level.
Work. Across Perry County, many people work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades, and in professional and business services. Unemployment has eased over the past year, while the number of jobs dipped slightly. Relatively few adults hold a four-year degree compared with much of the country, and few people work from home, so most residents commute to a workplace.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Robinson Forest, a protected area, and Rowdy Branch, a river, are both a short drive away. Hindman Settlement School, a museum, is also a short drive off, and Carr Creek State Park, a protected area, is a longer drive away for a fuller day out.
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- 11,078households
- 41.5median age
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 27%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Perry County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Perry County had 11,306 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 64°. About 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Quicksand weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Perry County
- Hazard ARHGeneral hospital839FTE
- Perry County SchoolsSchool district607FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters379
- Hazard Community and Technical CollegeTwo-year college260
- Paul E. Patton Eastern Kentucky Veterans CenterNursing homes168
- Hazard Independent SchoolsSchool district164FTE
- Appalachian Regional HealthcarePhysicians' offices122
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter113
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 26 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,745 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Perry 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 Perry County.
Ary home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ary$101,609
- 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 Ary address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ary — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.