Bimble, Kentucky.
Typical home $124,909 (-2.3% in a year). London, KY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$372 (+131%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,986 -2%
- $127,895$124,909 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $26,771 +27%
- $98,137$124,909 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.
- Bimble$656
- 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 Bimble, KY fell 2.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bimble, Knox County, Kentucky
The Census does not count Bimble on its own, so the figures here are Knox County's. Half the county's households earn more than $32,527 a year and half less; 37% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 65% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 35% are rented. Unemployment in Knox County was 5.8% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Knox County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bimble is a small town in Knox County, in the hill country of southeastern Kentucky. Across the county, more residents live below the poverty line than in most of the country, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Homes are generally worth less than across much of the country. Winters are colder than most of the country, summers are warm, and a good deal of rain and melted snow falls each year.
Work. Across Knox County, many people work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in manufacturing. Unemployment has eased compared with a year earlier, though the county had somewhat fewer jobs in the most recent year on record. A smaller share of adults hold a four-year degree than in most of the country, and fewer people work from home than across the country.
Things to do. Stinking Creek, a river, is a short drive away. Cumberland Falls, one of the best known waterfalls in the region, and Pine Mountain State Resort Park, a protected area, are both a longer drive away.
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- 11,711households
- 39.7median age
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 37%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in Knox County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Knox County had 7,528 jobs in 2025, 2.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 45° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 65°. About 54 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Barbourville weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Knox County
- Knox County SchoolsSchool district753FTE
- Jackson Warewashing SystemsDishwashing machines, commercial-type, manufacturing327
- Union CollegeUniversity or college230
- Grace Health - Medical CampusCommunity health centers and clinics, outpatient161
- Barbourville ARH HospitalCritical access hospital158FTE
- Forcht Group of KentuckyNursing homes144
- WalmartDiscount department stores131
- Kroger Louisville KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores93
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 17 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,338 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Knox County, 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 Knox County and the London, KY metro.
Bimble home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bimble$124,909
- 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.
- Bimble15
Zip codes with a Bimble address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bimble — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Bimble
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 40935 | Flat Lick | 1,748 | — | $85,679 |
| 40943 | Girdler | 1,117 | — | $144,421 |
| 40923 | Cannon | 679 | — | $135,980 |
| 40915 | Bimble | 564 | — | $129,652 |
| 40953 | Hinkle | 454 | — | $105,252 |