Edmonton, Kentucky.
Typical home $171,202 (-1.2% in a year). Glasgow, KY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$571 (+175%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,143 -1%
- $173,345$171,202 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $48,955 +40%
- $122,247$171,202 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.
- Edmonton$899
- Kentucky$1,212
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Edmonton, KY fell 1.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Edmonton, Metcalfe County, Kentucky
Edmonton is a city of 1,671 people in Metcalfe County. Half its households earn more than $51,272 a year and half less, against $51,473 across Metcalfe County; 26% of its people live below the poverty line. 53% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 47% are rented. Unemployment in Metcalfe County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 4.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Metcalfe 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Edmonton is a small city and the seat of Metcalfe County, in the rolling country of south-central Kentucky. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and a larger share of residents live below the poverty line than most people would expect to find. More homes are lived in by their owners than rented, and a typical home is valued well under what many homeowners elsewhere would pay. Winters are cold but not severe, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, the building trades and shops also employing many. Among the largest workplaces in Edmonton are Sumitomo Electric Wiring Systems, Metcalfe County Schools and Metcalfe Health Care Center. Few adults hold a four-year degree, very few work from home, and the typical commute is a moderate one. Jobs across the county have slipped over the past year, though unemployment there has eased a little.
Things to do. The best known place nearby is Mammoth Cave National Park, a national park a longer drive away and one of the great cave systems of the country. Also a longer drive away are Horse Cave, a tourist attraction, and Green River Lake, a reservoir with a state park of the same name on its shores. These make for day trips rather than quick afternoon outings.
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- 909households
- 7%of adults have a degree
- 26%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Metcalfe County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Metcalfe County had 2,087 jobs in 2025, 4.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 68°. About 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Knob Lick 4S weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Edmonton
- Sumitomo Electric Wiring SystemsLoading printed circuit boards303
- Metcalfe County SchoolsSchool district229FTE
- Metcalfe Health Care CenterHomes for the elderly with nursing care105
- HG Staffing EdmontonPlacement agencies or services, employment42
- Bluegrass Supply Chain ServicesGeneral warehousing and storage26
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 476 people in all. 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Edmonton’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 Metcalfe County and the Glasgow, KY metro.
Edmonton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Edmonton$171,202
- Kentucky$230,909
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Edmonton 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.
- Edmonton25.13%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Edmonton27
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Edmonton7
Zip codes with a Edmonton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Edmonton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.