Earlington, Kentucky.
Typical home $47,971 (-13.9% in a year). Madisonville, KY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$27 (+12%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $7,731 -14%
- $55,703$47,971 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $17,952 -27%
- $65,923$47,971 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.
- Earlington$252
- Kentucky$1,212
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Earlington, KY fell 13.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Earlington, Hopkins County, Kentucky
Earlington is a city of 1,257 people in Hopkins County. 70% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 30% are rented. Unemployment in Hopkins County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Hopkins 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Earlington is a small city in Hopkins County, Kentucky, where most homes are lived in by their owners and typical home values sit well below what many homeowners elsewhere would expect. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than is common across the country. Winters are cold and summers are hot, with a good deal of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades also employing many. Across Hopkins County, the largest workplaces include Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville, Hopkins County Schools and Carhartt. Commutes are fairly short, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Outdoor places lie within a longer drive. Pennyrile State Forest is a protected area of woods, and Lake Beshear is a lake for time on the water. Indian Knoll, an archaeological site, is also a longer drive away, for those drawn to the area's early history.
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- 453households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 17 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Hopkins County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hopkins County had 17,329 jobs in 2025, 1.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 45° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 70°. About 52 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Madisonville weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hopkins County
- Baptist Health DeaconessmadisonvilleGeneral hospital965FTE
- Hopkins County SchoolsSchool district910FTE
- CarharttGeneral warehousing and storage783
- Webstaurant StoreGeneral warehousing and storage499
- Quanta ServicesLow voltage electrical work475
- GE Aviation458
- Berry Global - Madisonville382
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters343
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 52 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,100 people in all across the county; Earlington has none of its own. Hospitals come 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 stormsVery high
- Strong windVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Earlington’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 Hopkins County and the Madisonville, KY metro.
Earlington home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Earlington$47,971
- 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 Earlington address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Earlington — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.