Boston, Kentucky.
Typical home $237,691 (+4.5% in a year). Bardstown, KY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$703 (+129%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,232 +4%
- $227,459$237,691 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $42,134 +22%
- $195,557$237,691 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.
- Boston$1,248
- Kentucky$1,212
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Boston, KY rose 4.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Boston, Nelson County, Kentucky
Boston, in Nelson County, had 253 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Nelson County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Nelson 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Boston is a very small community in Nelson County, Kentucky, where people tend to know one another and daily life moves at a quiet pace. Homes here are worth less than many places in the region, and the county's household incomes sit in a middle range for the state. Winters are cold but not severe, summers turn hot, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents mostly work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops and in the building trades. Across Nelson County, some of the largest workplaces are Nelson County Schools, Heaven Hill Brands and Sazerac, both of which are distilleries. Jobs across the county have held roughly steady, with slightly fewer than the year before, and unemployment has stayed level over the past year.
Things to do. Beech Fork, a river in or beside town, is the nearest place to spend time outdoors. A short drive away are Bernheim Forest and Arboretum, a botanical garden, and the Kentucky Railway Museum. For a longer outing, Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park is a protected area a longer drive away.
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What people in Nelson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Nelson County had 18,432 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 45° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 66°. About 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bernheim Forest weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Nelson County
- Nelson County SchoolsSchool district672FTE
- American Fuji SealFilm, plastics, packaging, manufacturing585
- AutokinitonJob stampings, automotive, metal, manufacturing504
- SazeracDistilleries500
- Heaven Hill BrandsDistilleries499
- Bardstown Independent SchoolsSchool district468FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters353
- The Bardstown Bourbon CompanyDistilleries306
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 55 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,841 people in all across the county; Boston has none of its own. School districts come 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
- LightningVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Boston’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 Nelson County and the Bardstown, KY metro.
Boston home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Boston$237,691
- Kentucky$230,909
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
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.
- Boston7
Zip codes with a Boston address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Boston — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.