Dixon, Kentucky.
Typical home $192,711 (+8.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$615 (+155%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,334 +8%
- $178,377$192,711 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $53,978 +39%
- $138,732$192,711 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.
- Dixon$1,011
- Kentucky$1,212
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Dixon, KY rose 8.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dixon, Webster County, Kentucky
Dixon is a city of 933 people in Webster County. Unemployment in Webster County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 5.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Webster County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dixon is a small city in Webster County, Kentucky, home to a small community of residents at the last full count. Residents are of middle age on the whole, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and nights that fall below freezing, while summers turn hot, especially in July. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in transport, warehouses and utilities, and in farming, forestry and mining. Across Webster County, Webster County Schools, Pioneer Plastics and Houchens Food Group are among the largest workplaces. The typical commute is fairly long, and few people work from home. Unemployment in the county has eased a little over the past year, and the county has added jobs.
Things to do. The closest named places all take a longer drive. Cave-in-Rock State Park and John James Audubon State Park are protected areas, good for time outdoors. Lake Beshear is a lake, and the Wabash River is a river that suits a day by the water.
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- 6%of adults have a degree
- 20%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Webster County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Webster County had 2,855 jobs in 2025, 5.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 69°. About 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Providence weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Webster County
- Webster County SchoolsSchool district326FTE
- Pioneer PlasticsUtility containers, plastics, manufacturing62
- Houchens Food GroupSupermarkets and other grocery stores28
- Lew Thompson & Sons- SebreeTrucking, specialized freight, long-distance26
- S&D SmithBricklaying contractors25
- S. Clark ElectricElectrical contractors25
- Tyson ChickenOther animal food manufacturing25
- Palmer Place Assisted LivingAssisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 282 people in all across the county; Dixon has two 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Dixon’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 Webster County.
Dixon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dixon$192,711
- 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 Dixon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dixon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.