Brooksville, Kentucky.
Typical home $202,841 (+7.1% in a year). Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$652 (+158%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,359 +7%
- $189,481$202,841 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $48,160 +31%
- $154,681$202,841 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.
- Brooksville$1,065
- Kentucky$1,212
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Brooksville, KY rose 7.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Brooksville, Bracken County, Kentucky
Brooksville is a city of 654 people in Bracken County. Unemployment in Bracken County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Bracken 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Brooksville is a very small city in Bracken County, Kentucky, where people tend to know one another and the pace is quiet. Homes here are priced well below what is typical in much of the country, and household incomes across the county sit somewhat above what a small rural place might lead you to expect. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and very few work from home, so most people leave town for their jobs.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades also providing many jobs. Across Bracken County, the largest workplaces include Berry Film Products Company, Bracken County Schools and Augusta Distillery. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year earlier, and the number of jobs has edged up.
Things to do. The Rosemary Clooney Museum and the Bullskin Creek Site, an archaeological site, are both a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Kincaid Lake State Park, a protected area built around a reservoir, and to the John Rankin House, a museum. Winters here are cold and summers warm, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
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- 372households
- 7%of adults have a degree
- 2%work from home
What people in Bracken County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bracken County had 1,564 jobs in 2025, 2.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 41° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 65°. About 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Augusta weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bracken County
- Berry Film Products CompanyFilm, plastics, manufacturing246
- Bracken County SchoolsSchool district176FTE
- Augusta Independent SchoolsSchool district48FTE
- Augusta DistilleryGrain alcohol, beverage, manufacturing39
- bulk transitTrucking, general freight, long-distance, less-than-truckload34
- Opterra Solutions Inc. 116 NorthLandscaping services26
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 345 people in all across the county; Brooksville 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
- Strong windVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Brooksville’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 Bracken County and the Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN metro.
Brooksville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Brooksville$202,841
- 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.
- Brooksville13
Zip codes with a Brooksville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Brooksville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Brooksville
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 41004 | Brooksville | 4,025 | — | $195,652 |
| 41044 | Germantown | 1,263 | — | $208,651 |