Bronston, Kentucky.
Typical home $197,589 (+1.8% in a year). Somerset, KY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$561 (+118%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,453 +2%
- $194,136$197,589 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $27,221 +16%
- $170,367$197,589 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.
- Bronston$1,037
- Kentucky$1,212
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 23 years.
Typical home values in Bronston, KY rose 1.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bronston, Wayne County, Kentucky
The Census does not count Bronston on its own, so the figures here are Wayne County's. Half the county's households earn more than $45,739 a year and half less; 25% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 69% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 31% are rented. Unemployment in Wayne County was 5.7% in August 2026, and the county had 2.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Wayne County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bronston is a small town in Wayne County, in south-central Kentucky, close to the Tennessee line. Across Wayne County, most homes are lived in by their owners, and the typical resident is well into middle age. Homes are priced well below the national norm, and the county's population is older and more rural than in most of the country.
Work. Schools, hospitals and social care, manufacturing, shops and the building trades are the main kinds of work residents do. Across Wayne County, a smaller share of adults hold a degree than across the country, and fewer people work from home than in the cities. Unemployment has stayed level over the past year, while the number of jobs in the county has fallen recently. Most commutes are fairly short.
Things to do. Cumberland Falls, a waterfall a longer drive away, is one of the best-known natural sights in the region. Mill Springs Battlefield National Monument, a protected area a short drive away, marks a Civil War battle fought in the nineteenth century. The Big South Fork of the Cumberland River, a river a short drive away, offers a quiet place to spend a day outdoors.
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- 8,074households
- 43.8median age
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 25%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What people in Wayne County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wayne County had 5,080 jobs in 2025, 2.9% 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 86° and lows near 66°. About 14 inches of snow and 52 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Monticello Northeast weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wayne County
- American Woodmark529
- Wayne County SchoolsSchool district454FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters265
- Wayne County HospitalCritical access hospital153FTE
- Mountain Ridge Health & RehabilitationSkilled nursing facilities80
- Cobb-vantressPoultry hatcheries79
- Monticello Flooring & Lumber CoFlooring, wood, manufacturing55
- Cobb-vantressChicken egg production43
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,344 people in all. 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Wayne 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 Wayne County and the Somerset, KY metro.
Bronston home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bronston$197,589
- Kentucky$230,909
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Bronston listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Bronston21.28%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Bronston50
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Bronston12
Zip codes with a Bronston address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bronston — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.