Burna, Kentucky.
Typical home $110,949 (-12.5% in a year). Paducah, KY-IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$221 (+61%) since Feb 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $15,787 -12%
- $126,736$110,949 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $3,147 +3%
- $107,802$110,949 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.
- Burna$582
- Kentucky$1,212
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Burna, KY fell 12.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Burna, Livingston County, Kentucky
Burna, in Livingston County, had 219 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Livingston County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 2.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Livingston 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Burna is a very small community in Livingston County, Kentucky, home to a small number of people who know one another well. Homes here are inexpensive, and the typical home value sits well below what many buyers elsewhere would expect. Winters are cold and summers are warm, with only a little snow and a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. People in and around Burna work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, the building trades and professional and business services also common. Across Livingston County, some of the largest workplaces are Livingston County Schools, Livingston Hospital and Atrium Centers, a nursing care home for older residents. Jobs across the county grew a little last year, and unemployment is close to where it stood a year earlier.
Things to do. The Cumberland River is a short drive away and is the closest water for fishing or time on the bank. A longer drive brings you to Kentucky Lake, a large reservoir popular for boating and fishing, and to Cave-in-Rock State Park, a protected area along the Ohio River in Illinois. Those who like history can make a longer trip to Fort Massac, an archaeological site.
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What people in Livingston County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Livingston County had 3,489 jobs in 2025, 2.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 69°. About 4 inches of snow and 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Smithland L&d weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Livingston County
- Jim Smith Contracting CoOil field road construction200
- Livingston County SchoolsSchool district189FTE
- Livingston HospitalCritical access hospital154FTE
- Atrium CentersHomes for the elderly with nursing care36
- Reliable ElectricElectrical, electrical wiring, and low voltage electrical work28
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 264 people in all across the county; Burna 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 windVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Burna’s 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 Livingston County and the Paducah, KY-IL metro.
Burna home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Burna$110,949
- 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 Burna address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Burna — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.