Eddyville, Kentucky.
Typical home $242,807 (-3.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$668 (+110%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $7,673 -3%
- $250,480$242,807 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $37,819 +18%
- $204,988$242,807 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.
- Eddyville$1,274
- Kentucky$1,212
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Eddyville, KY fell 3.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Eddyville, Lyon County, Kentucky
Eddyville is a city of 2,375 people in Lyon County. 54% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 46% are rented. Unemployment in Lyon County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 2.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Eddyville is a small city in Lyon County, Kentucky, with a population that skews a little younger than many small towns. Slightly more homes are lived in by their owners than rented, and typical home values sit at a level many homeowners would find reasonable. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than in much of the country, and the winters are cool and the summers hot, with plenty of rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, government, and professional and business services also employing many people. Across Lyon County, the Kentucky State Penitentiary and Lyon County Schools are the largest workplaces, and a few care facilities and local restaurants also provide jobs. Most people drive some distance to work, and few work from home.
Things to do. Mineral Mound State Park is in or beside town, a protected area for walks and time outdoors. Lake Barkley, a reservoir, and Eddy Creek are both a short drive away, so the water is easy to reach. For a longer outing, Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area is a larger protected area a longer drive away.
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- 928households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lyon County had 2,596 jobs in 2025, 2.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 48° and lows near 30°; warmest in August, with highs near 90° and lows near 70°. About 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Eddyville 5S weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lyon County
- Kentucky State PenitentiaryCorrectional institutions278
- Lyon County SchoolsSchool district137FTE
- Guardian FoundationSkilled nursing facilities67
- The Oasis Southwest GrillFamily restaurants, full service54
- WendkuttFast-food restaurants37
- #517 Food GiantSupermarkets and other grocery stores25
- HIKHotels22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 483 people in all across the county; Eddyville 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
- Strong windVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Eddyville’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 Lyon County.
Eddyville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Eddyville$242,807
- Kentucky$230,909
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Eddyville listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Eddyville25.97%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Eddyville35
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Eddyville7
Zip codes with a Eddyville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Eddyville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.