Calhoun, Kentucky.
Typical home $186,707 (-6.0% in a year). Owensboro, KY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$514 (+110%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $11,923 -6%
- $198,630$186,707 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $37,450 +25%
- $149,257$186,707 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.
- Calhoun$980
- Kentucky$1,212
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Calhoun, KY fell 6.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Calhoun, McLean County, Kentucky
Calhoun is a city of 725 people in McLean County. Unemployment in McLean County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in McLean 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Calhoun is a very small city on the Green River and the seat of McLean County in western Kentucky. Homes here are modest in price, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Poverty is somewhat more common than you might expect given that incomes across the county sit at a middling level. Winters are cold and summers are warm, with light snowfall and plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Across McLean County, jobs are concentrated in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops, and transport and warehousing. Some of the biggest workplaces across the county are McLean County Schools, Signature Healthcare and Advanced Drainage Systems. Unemployment is a little lower than a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before. A small share of residents work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, John James Audubon State Park is a protected area and Green River State Forest is another, both a longer drive away. The Western Kentucky Botanical Garden is also a longer drive away, as is the International Bluegrass Music Museum, which suits an afternoon indoors. Those with an interest in the past can look to Angel Mounds, an archaeological site, also a longer drive from town.
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- 8%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 10%work from home
What people in McLean County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. McLean County had 1,716 jobs in 2025, 1.2% 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 4 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Calhoun Lock weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in McLean County
- McLean County SchoolsSchool district241FTE
- Signature HealthcareSkilled nursing facilities93
- Advanced Drainage SystemsPlastic pipe manufacturing69
- Perdue FoodsOther animal food manufacturing39
- Tyson ChickenPoultry hatcheries23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 224 people in all across the county; Calhoun 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Calhoun’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 McLean County and the Owensboro, KY metro.
Calhoun home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Calhoun$186,707
- 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.
- Calhoun11
Zip codes with a Calhoun address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Calhoun — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.