Auburn, Kentucky.
Typical home $233,984 (+0.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$704 (+134%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,220 +1%
- $232,763$233,984 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $56,169 +32%
- $177,815$233,984 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.
- Auburn$1,228
- Kentucky$1,212
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Auburn, KY rose 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Auburn, Logan County, Kentucky
Auburn is a city of 1,589 people in Logan County. 70% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 30% are rented. Unemployment in Logan County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 2.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Logan County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Auburn is a small city in Logan County, Kentucky, and most homes there are lived in by their owners. A four-year degree is held by fewer adults than is typical across the country, and more residents live below the poverty line than is usual nationally. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are hot, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow fall through the year in generous amounts.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in the building trades. Across Logan County, some of the largest workplaces are Logan County Schools, Walmart and Carpenter Co. The county had fewer jobs last year than the year before, and the typical commute to work is fairly long, with very few people working from home.
Things to do. A short drive away, the Shaker Museum at South Union and the South Union Shaker Center House and Preservatory are museums that tell the story of the Shaker community that once lived nearby. The Mud River, also a short drive away, is a quiet place to be near the water. A longer drive brings you to the National Corvette Museum, one of the best known of the area's attractions.
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- 757households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 20%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Logan County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Logan County had 8,764 jobs in 2025, 2.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 68°. About 54 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Russellville weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Logan County
- Logan County SchoolsSchool district476FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters289
- Carpenter CoPolyurethane foam products manufacturing247
- Champion Petfoods USAAnimal feeds, prepared, dog and cat, manufacturing240
- Flex-N-GateBumpers and bumperettes assembled, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing234
- Russellville Independent SchoolsSchool district172FTE
- H&H Sheet Metal FabricatorsDucts, sheet metal, manufacturing170
- Robey FarmsAgriculture production or harvesting crews160
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 21 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,212 people in all across the county; Auburn has one of its own. 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- LightningVery high
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Auburn’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Logan County.
Auburn home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Auburn$233,984
- Kentucky$230,909
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Auburn listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Auburn17.11%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Auburn26
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Auburn6
Zip codes with a Auburn address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Auburn — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.