Big Clifty, Kentucky.
Typical home $170,754 (-16.8% in a year). Elizabethtown-Fort Knox, KY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$398 (+80%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $34,470 -17%
- $205,223$170,754 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $6,196 +4%
- $164,557$170,754 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.
- Big Clifty$896
- Kentucky$1,212
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 94 years.
Typical home values in Big Clifty, KY fell 16.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Big Clifty, Grayson County, Kentucky
Big Clifty, in Grayson County, had 367 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Grayson County was 5.5% in August 2026, and the county had 3.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Grayson 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Big Clifty is a very small community in Grayson County, Kentucky, small enough that neighbors tend to know one another. Homes here are priced modestly, and household incomes across the county sit below the national picture. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers turn warm, with plenty of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in the building trades and in shops. Across Grayson County, the largest workplaces include Grayson County Schools, TI Automotive and Walmart. Jobs in the county have shrunk a little over the past year, and unemployment there has stayed close to where it stood a year earlier. Getting to work usually takes a fairly long drive.
Things to do. Mammoth Cave National Park, a national park, is a longer drive away, and it is the best known place nearby. Also a longer drive away are Nolin Lake State Park, a protected area built around a lake, and Rough River Lake, which suits time on the water. Horse Cave, a tourist attraction, rounds out the nearby choices.
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- 33 mintypical commute
What people in Grayson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Grayson County had 7,242 jobs in 2025, 3.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 64°. About 9 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Leitchfield North weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Grayson County
- Grayson County SchoolsSchool district612FTE
- TI AutomotiveMotor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, manufacturing402
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters368
- Owensboro Health Twin Lakes MedicalGeneral hospital248FTE
- Core-Mark Leitchfield243
- Leggett & PlattFurniture frames and parts, metal, manufacturing186
- Encore Health PartnersNursing homes110
- The New York Blower Company - LeitchfieldFans, industrial and commercial-type, manufacturing88
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 21 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,369 people in all across the county; Big Clifty has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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 windRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Big Clifty’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Grayson County and the Elizabethtown-Fort Knox, KY metro.
Big Clifty home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Big Clifty$170,754
- 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.
- Big Clifty12
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Big Clifty address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Big Clifty — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.