Busy, Kentucky.
Typical home $77,449 (-18.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$97 (+31%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $17,410 -18%
- $94,859$77,449 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $23,937 -24%
- $101,386$77,449 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.
- Busy$407
- Kentucky$1,212
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Busy, KY fell 18.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Busy, Perry County, Kentucky
The Census does not count Busy on its own, so the figures here are Perry County's. Half the county's households earn more than $42,181 a year and half less; 27% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 70% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 30% are rented. Unemployment in Perry County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Perry County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Busy is a small community in Perry County, in the hill country of eastern Kentucky. Winters here are colder than in most of the country, while summers are warm, and the year is a wet one, with plenty of rain and melted snow. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and the population is older on average than across the country as a whole.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades, or in professional and business services. Across Perry County, unemployment has eased lately, though the number of jobs has slipped a little. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across the country, household incomes sit below the national median, and few people work from home, so most commute to a workplace.
Things to do. Buckhorn Lake State Resort Park, a protected area a short drive away, is the nearest place to spend a day outdoors. Thousandsticks Branch, a river also a short drive away, offers a quieter spot by the water. Robinson Forest, a protected area a longer drive away, suits those who want a longer walk among the trees.
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- 11,078households
- 41.5median age
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 27%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Perry County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Perry County had 11,306 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 65°. About 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Buckhorn Lake weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Perry County
- Hazard ARHGeneral hospital839FTE
- Perry County SchoolsSchool district607FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters379
- Hazard Community and Technical CollegeTwo-year college260
- Paul E. Patton Eastern Kentucky Veterans CenterNursing homes168
- Hazard Independent SchoolsSchool district164FTE
- Appalachian Regional HealthcarePhysicians' offices122
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter113
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 26 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,745 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively 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 Perry 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 Perry County.
Busy home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Busy$77,449
- 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 Busy address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Busy — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.