Danville, Kentucky.
Typical home $249,104 (+1.7% in a year), asking rent $1,074 . Danville, KY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$752 (+136%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,211 +2%
- $244,893$249,104 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $64,753 +35%
- $184,352$249,104 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.
- Danville$1,307
- Kentucky$1,212
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Danville, KY rose 1.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Danville, Boyle County, Kentucky
Danville is a city of 17,234 people in Boyle County. Half its households earn more than $52,646 a year and half less, against $61,159 across Boyle County; 17% of its people live below the poverty line. 56% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 44% are rented. Unemployment in Boyle County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Danville is a small Kentucky city and the seat of Boyle County. Household incomes here run below the county's, and a good share of residents live below the poverty line. Fewer homes are lived in by their owners than you would find in many towns, so renting is common alongside owning. Winters are cold and summers warm, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing, and restaurants and hotels close behind. Centre College is one of the largest workplaces in town, along with Boyle County Schools and Dana Inc.'s Danville facility. Most people have a short drive to work, and only a small number work from home.
Things to do. In or beside town, Constitution Square State Historic Site is a museum of the area's early history, and Pioneer Playhouse is a theatre. A short drive away, Old Fort Harrod State Park is another museum, and Herrington Lake is a reservoir for time on the water. For a longer outing, Camp Nelson National Monument is a protected area a longer drive away.
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- 6,968households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 17 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Boyle County had 14,509 jobs in 2025, 1.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 65°. About 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Danville weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Danville
- Centre CollegeUniversity or college489
- Boyle County SchoolsSchool district385FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters368
- Dana Inc. (Danville Facility)Automotive parts manufacturer359
- Danville Independent SchoolsSchool district312FTE
- Denyo ManufacturingRailway motors and control equipment, electric, manufacturing200
- Honeywell Intelligrated - DanvilleBelt conveyor systems manufacturing180
- Kroger Louisville KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores155
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 20 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,455 people in all. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Hailrelatively high in parts of DanvilleRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Danville’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 Boyle County and the Danville, KY metro.
Danville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Danville$249,104
- Kentucky$230,909
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Danville listings, and the typical home goes pending in 42 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- Danville34.92%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Danville42
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Danville145
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Danville37
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Danville$219,213
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Danville96.30%
Zip codes with a Danville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Danville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.