Dexter, Kentucky.
Typical home $159,061 (-14.3% in a year). Murray, KY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$68 (+9%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $26,467 -14%
- $185,528$159,061 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $81,958 -34%
- $241,019$159,061 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.
- Dexter$835
- Kentucky$1,212
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Dexter, KY fell 14.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dexter, Calloway County, Kentucky
Dexter, in Calloway County, had 257 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Calloway County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Calloway 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dexter is a very small community in Calloway County, Kentucky, with a population that makes it one of the smaller places in the area. Homes here are valued well below what is typical across the country, and household incomes across the county run a little under the national picture. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and freezing nights common, and summers are hot, with August the warmest.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail and restaurants and hotels also employing many. Across Calloway County, some of the largest workplaces are Murray State University, Murray Calloway County Hospital and Pella, which makes windows and window frames. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year ago, and the number of jobs has grown only slightly.
Things to do. Cherokee State Park is a protected area a short drive away, and Roy Stewart Stadium is also a short drive away. For a longer outing, Kentucky Lake is a large reservoir and Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area is a protected area, both a longer drive away.
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What people in Calloway County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Calloway County had 15,612 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 46° and lows near 23°; warmest in August, with highs near 90° and lows near 63°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Benton weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Calloway County
- Paschall Truck LinesGeneral freight trucking, long-distance, truckload1,344
- Murray State UniversityUniversity or college1,229
- PellaWindows and window frames, plastics, manufacturing797
- Murray Calloway County HospitalGeneral hospital789FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters429
- Calloway County SchoolsSchool district421FTE
- Murray Independent SchoolsSchool district373FTE
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter138
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 40 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,582 people in all across the county; Dexter has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Dexter’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 Calloway County and the Murray, KY metro.
Dexter home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dexter$159,061
- 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.
- Dexter5
Zip codes with a Dexter address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dexter — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.