Brodhead, Kentucky.
Typical home $160,924 (-8.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$492 (+140%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $13,991 -8%
- $174,915$160,924 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $41,015 +34%
- $119,909$160,924 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.
- Brodhead$845
- Kentucky$1,212
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Brodhead, KY fell 8.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Brodhead, Rockcastle County, Kentucky
Brodhead is a city of 1,117 people in Rockcastle County. 45% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 55% are rented. Unemployment in Rockcastle County was 4.9% in August 2026, and the county had 4.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Brodhead is a small city in Rockcastle County, Kentucky, with fewer homes lived in by their owners than you might expect in a place this size, and homes that cost less than in much of the country. Adults here are less likely to hold a four-year degree than across the country as a whole, and household incomes across the county run below the national level. Winters are cold, with January highs a little above freezing and lows below it, and summers are warm, with July the warmest month. Snow is modest, and rain and melted snow add up to a good deal over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and other services close behind. Across Rockcastle County, some of the largest workplaces are XBP Global Holdings, Rockcastle County Schools and Rockcastle Hospital & Respiratory Care Center. Unemployment across the county is much where it was a year earlier, though the county had fewer jobs last year than the year before. The typical commute is a fairly short drive, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Lake Linville and Cedar Creek Lake are both a short drive away, and both are good for time on the water. A longer drive brings you to Camp Nelson National Monument, a protected area, and to Constitution Square State Historic Site, a museum. The Green River is also a longer drive away for those who like to be beside a river.
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- 546households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 25 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Rockcastle County had 3,837 jobs in 2025, 4.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 66°. About 11 inches of snow and 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mount Vernon weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Rockcastle County
- XBP Global HoldingsBusiness management services466
- Rockcastle County SchoolsSchool district452FTE
- Rockcastle Hospt. & Respir Care CTRGeneral hospital396FTE
- Signature HealthcareSkilled nursing facilities99
- Chapin International Kentucky DivisionBottles, plastics, manufacturing97
- EST Tool & MachineMachine shops38
- J&A Perez ConstructionErecting structural steel26
- Houchens Food GroupSupermarkets and other grocery stores22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,536 people in all across the county; Brodhead has one 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Brodhead’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 Rockcastle County.
Brodhead home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Brodhead$160,924
- 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.
- Brodhead13
Zip codes with a Brodhead address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Brodhead — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.