Belfry, Kentucky.
Typical home $76,310 (-13.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$138 (+53%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $11,614 -13%
- $87,924$76,310 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $11,220 -13%
- $87,530$76,310 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.
- Belfry$401
- Kentucky$1,212
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Belfry, KY fell 13.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Belfry, Pike County, Kentucky
Belfry, in Pike County, had 263 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Pike County was 6.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Pike County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Belfry is a very small community in Pike County, in the eastern Kentucky hills, where neighbors tend to know one another. Homes here cost far less than in most of the country, and household incomes across Pike County sit below the national picture. Winters are cold and summers are warm, with snow most years and plenty of rain through the seasons.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, in restaurants and hotels, and in professional and business services. Across Pike County, the largest workplaces include Pikeville Medical Center, Pike County Schools and the University of Pikeville. Unemployment across the county is the same as it was a year ago, and the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Several creeks run a short drive from town, including Blackberry Creek, Thacker Creek and Miller Creek, and they are good places to spend time outdoors. A short drive also brings you to the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum, which tells the story of the region's coal-field labor history. For a longer outing, Breaks Interstate Park is a protected area a longer drive away.
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What people in Pike County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pike County had 20,166 jobs in 2025, 1.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 46° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 66°. About 13 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Williamson weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pike County
- Pikeville Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,832FTE
- Pike County SchoolsSchool district1,340FTE
- University of PikevilleUniversity or college440
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters438
- KYTC District 12321
- Kellogg CompanyBakery products, dry, manufacturing314
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters273
- TUG Valley ARHGeneral hospital272FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 41 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,157 people in all across the county; Belfry has none of its own. 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- LandslidesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Belfry’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 Pike County.
Belfry home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Belfry$76,310
- 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.
- Belfry7
Zip codes with a Belfry address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Belfry — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.