Berry, Kentucky.
Typical home $186,267 (-11.5% in a year). Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$517 (+112%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $24,236 -12%
- $210,503$186,267 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $27,742 +18%
- $158,525$186,267 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.
- Berry$978
- Kentucky$1,212
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 21 years.
Typical home values in Berry, KY fell 11.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Berry, Harrison County, Kentucky
Berry is a city of 250 people in Harrison County. Half its households earn more than $68,854 a year and half less, against $66,442 across Harrison County; 13% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Harrison County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Harrison 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Berry is a very small city in Harrison County, Kentucky, with a population that makes it feel more like a close-knit village than a town. Household incomes run a little above the county's, though a noticeable part of residents live below the poverty line, and a four-year degree is uncommon among adults here. Homes are typically valued at a modest level, and winters are cold, with the coldest weather in January, while summers turn warm, peaking in July, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents of Berry work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, restaurants and hotels, and government also employing many. Across Harrison County, the largest workplaces include Harrison Memorial Hospital, 3M Company and Harrison County Schools. The county had somewhat fewer jobs last year than the year before, and unemployment there is close to where it stood a year earlier.
Things to do. Kincaid Lake State Park, a protected area with a reservoir, is a longer drive away and suits a day by the water. The Kentucky Horse Park, also a protected area, and Yuko-En on the Elkhorn, a garden, are likewise a longer drive from town. Anyone interested in local history can visit the Daniel Boone Cabin, a museum, which is a longer drive away as well.
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- 8%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
What people in Harrison County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Harrison County had 5,230 jobs in 2025, 1.5% fewer 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 Cynthiana weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Harrison County
- Harrison Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital449FTE
- 3M Company433
- Harrison County SchoolsSchool district406FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters281
- Trilogy Health ServicesNursing care facilities skilled nursing facilities91
- HarrisonHomes for the elderly with nursing care62
- Edgemont HealthcareHomes for the elderly with nursing care59
- Bluegrass Care NavigatorsHospice care services, in home41
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,689 people in all across the county; Berry has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Berry’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Harrison County and the Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN metro.
Berry home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Berry$186,267
- 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.
- Berry6
Zip codes with a Berry address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Berry — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.