Brooks, Kentucky.
Typical home $292,713 (-1.3% in a year). Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$745 (+94%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,984 -1%
- $296,696$292,713 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $46,685 +19%
- $246,028$292,713 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.
- Brooks$1,536
- Kentucky$1,212
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Brooks, KY fell 1.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Brooks, Bullitt County, Kentucky
Brooks, in Bullitt County, had 2,469 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $66,056 a year and half less, against $80,558 across Bullitt County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 94% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 6% are rented. Unemployment in Bullitt County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Bullitt 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Brooks is a small community in Bullitt County where nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Household incomes run below the county's as a whole, and the typical home is valued well above what the incomes alone might suggest. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the typical commute is a moderate one.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, transport and warehousing, and retail also employing many. Among the biggest workplaces in Brooks are Arvato Louisville 4, a merchant wholesaler, and Southeastern Freight Lines, a trucking company. Unemployment across Bullitt County has edged up a little from a year earlier, and the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Kentucky Kingdom, an amusement park, and the Louisville Zoo are both a short drive away, as is Jefferson Memorial Forest, a large park for walking. For a longer outing, Bernheim Forest and Arboretum is a botanical garden a longer drive away. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers are warm, with plenty of rain through the year.
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- 847households
- 4%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
What people in Bullitt County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bullitt County had 29,334 jobs in 2025, 1.5% 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 15 inches of snow and 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Louisville Weather Office weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Brooks
- Arvato Louisville 4General merchandise, durable goods, merchant wholesalers43
- E H ConstructionCommercial building construction general contractors41
- Southeastern Freight LinesTrucking39
- Independent Steel CoErecting structural steel28
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 151 people in all. 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 windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Brooks’ census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Bullitt County and the Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN metro.
Brooks home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Brooks$292,713
- 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.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Brooks 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Brooks14
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Brooks address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Brooks — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.