Dema, Kentucky.
Typical home $54,630 (-12.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$144 (+100%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $8,031 -13%
- $62,661$54,630 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $3,312 +6%
- $51,319$54,630 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.
- Dema$287
- Kentucky$1,212
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 55 years.
Typical home values in Dema, KY fell 12.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dema, Knott County, Kentucky
The Census does not count Dema on its own, so the figures here are Knott County's. Half the county's households earn more than $41,761 a year and half less; 23% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 73% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 27% are rented. Unemployment in Knott County was 5.8% in August 2026, and the county had 2.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Knott 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dema is a small town in Knott County, in the hill country of eastern Kentucky. Winters are colder than in most of the country, and summers are warm. Across Knott County, most homes are lived in by their owners, and incomes sit below the state's typical level.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in government, or in banking, insurance and property. Across Knott County, job numbers have grown a little in the past year, and unemployment has eased from the year before. Few residents work from home.
Things to do. Breaks Interstate Park, a protected area, lies a longer drive away and is one of the best known places nearby. Robinson Forest, also a protected area, is another option for those who enjoy the outdoors. The East Kentucky Science Center, a museum, is a longer drive away as well.
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- 5,521households
- 44.6median age
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 23%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Knott County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Knott County had 2,208 jobs in 2025, 2.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 64°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Prestonsburg 3WSW weather station, 18 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Knott County
- Knott County SchoolsSchool district377FTE
- Alice Lloyd CollegeUniversity or college116
- Thacker Grigsby Telephone CompanyLocal exchange112
- Thacker-Grigsby Telephone CoLocal exchange carrier112
- T.V. ServiceCable tv providers30
- Knott County Medical ClinicCommunity health centers and clinics, outpatient29
- Chfs DcbsState government23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 306 people in all. School districts come 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
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Knott 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 Knott County.
Dema home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dema$54,630
- 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.
- Dema5
Zip codes with a Dema address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dema — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.