Augusta, Kentucky.
Typical home $191,677 (+5.6% in a year). Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$602 (+149%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,245 +6%
- $181,431$191,677 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $42,829 +29%
- $148,847$191,677 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.
- Augusta$1,006
- Kentucky$1,212
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Augusta, KY rose 5.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Augusta, Bracken County, Kentucky
Augusta is a city of 1,096 people in Bracken County. 57% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 43% are rented. Unemployment in Bracken County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Bracken County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Augusta is a small river city, and most households here are owner-occupied, though a good number rent. Incomes in the county run well below what many Americans earn, and poverty is more common here than in much of the country. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across the nation as a whole, and few people work from home. Winters are cold, with January the chilliest month, and summers are warm, with July the hottest. Rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail and the building trades also employing many. Among the largest workplaces in Augusta are Berry Film Products Company, Augusta Independent Schools and Augusta Distillery. Across Bracken County, unemployment has eased compared with a year earlier, and the number of jobs has grown a little.
Things to do. The Rosemary Clooney Museum is in or beside town, and the John P. Parker House and the John Rankin House, both museums, are a short drive away. For time outdoors, Kincaid Lake State Park is a longer drive, a protected area built around a reservoir.
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- 613households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 24%below the poverty line
- 6%work from home
What people in Bracken County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bracken County had 1,564 jobs in 2025, 2.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 41° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 65°. About 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Augusta weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Augusta
- Berry Film Products CompanyFilm, plastics, manufacturing246
- Augusta Independent SchoolsSchool district48FTE
- Augusta DistilleryGrain alcohol, beverage, manufacturing39
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 285 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
- Strong windVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Augusta’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 Bracken County and the Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN metro.
Augusta home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Augusta$191,677
- 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.
- Augusta9
Zip codes with a Augusta address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Augusta — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.