Bremen, Kentucky.
Typical home $133,603 (-3.2% in a year). Central City, KY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$367 (+110%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,400 -3%
- $138,002$133,603 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $24,037 +22%
- $109,566$133,603 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.
- Bremen$701
- Kentucky$1,212
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Bremen, KY fell 3.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bremen, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky
Bremen is a city of 172 people in Muhlenberg County. Unemployment in Muhlenberg County was 4.9% in August 2026, and the county had 3.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Muhlenberg 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bremen is a very small city in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, with few enough residents that neighbors are likely to know one another. Homes here are valued well below what is typical across the country, and household incomes across the county sit a little below the national picture. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and most people travel a fair distance to get to work.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail and the building trades also well represented. Across Muhlenberg County, the largest workplaces include Muhlenberg County Schools, Muhlenberg Community Hospital and Walmart. Unemployment in the county has eased a little over the past year, though there are somewhat fewer jobs than there were the year before.
Things to do. A longer drive away, Lake Malone State Park is a protected area built around Lake Malone, and Lake Beshear offers another lake nearby. For history and music, the Bill Monroe Museum and the International Bluegrass Music Museum are both a longer drive away, as is Indian Knoll, an archaeological site. Winters here are cold with only light snow, and summers turn warm, with a fair amount of rain through the year.
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- 9%of adults have a degree
- 28 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What people in Muhlenberg County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Muhlenberg County had 7,845 jobs in 2025, 3.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 68°. About 4 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Calhoun Lock weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Muhlenberg County
- Muhlenberg County SchoolsSchool district695FTE
- Muhlenberg Community HospitalGeneral hospital388FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters279
- Plastic Products Co., Inc. - GreenvilleBowls and bowl covers, plastics, manufacturing109
- Maple Health and RehabilitationHomes for the elderly with nursing care106
- Dyno NobelMannitol hexanitrate explosive materials manufacturing86
- Cal-Maine FoodsChicken egg production78
- Kroger Louisville KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores60
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 16 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,387 people in all across the county; Bremen 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bremen’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 Muhlenberg County and the Central City, KY metro.
Bremen home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bremen$133,603
- 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.
Zip codes with a Bremen address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bremen — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.