Bee Spring, Kentucky.
Typical home $207,687 (+1.1% in a year). Bowling Green, KY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$648 (+147%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,235 +1%
- $205,452$207,687 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $43,573 +27%
- $164,114$207,687 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.
- Bee Spring$1,090
- Kentucky$1,212
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Bee Spring, KY rose 1.1% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Bee Spring, Edmonson County, Kentucky
The Census does not count Bee Spring on its own, so the figures here are Edmonson County's. Half the county's households earn more than $54,937 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 Edmonson County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Edmonson 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bee Spring is a small town in Edmonson County, Kentucky, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Across the county, the population is older than the country as a whole, and incomes are lower than the national typical. Winters are cold but bring little snow, summers are hot, and rain and melted snow fall heavily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops, or in the building trades. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year ago, and the number of jobs has grown slightly. Few people work from home, so most adults travel out for work, and fewer adults hold a degree than in the country overall.
Things to do. Nolin River Lake lies in or beside the town, making it the easiest outdoor place to reach. Mammoth Cave National Park, a national park, is a longer drive away. Horse Cave Theatre, a theatre, is also a longer drive away.
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- 5,099households
- 45.6median age
- 11%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 33 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What people in Edmonson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Edmonson County had 1,695 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 46° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 64°. About 5 inches of snow and 54 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Nolin River Lake weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Edmonson County
- Edmonson County SchoolsSchool district305FTE
- National Park ServiceFederal government · Department of the Interior137
- EncoreHomes for the elderly with nursing care101
- R&R HvacHvac contractors67
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture38
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 168 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Edmonson 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 Edmonson County and the Bowling Green, KY metro.
Bee Spring home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bee Spring$207,687
- Kentucky$230,909
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Bee Spring 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.
- Bee Spring22.20%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Bee Spring27
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Bee Spring address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bee Spring — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Bee Spring
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 42207 | Bee Spring | 927 | — | $188,461 |
| 42285 | Sweeden | 531 | — | $168,245 |