Ekron, Kentucky.
Typical home $268,578 (+0.1% in a year). Elizabethtown-Fort Knox, KY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$869 (+161%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $285 +0%
- $268,293$268,578 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $76,542 +40%
- $192,036$268,578 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.
- Ekron$1,410
- 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 Ekron, KY rose 0.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ekron, Meade County, Kentucky
Ekron is a city of 175 people in Meade County. Half its households earn more than $42,500 a year and half less, against $74,355 across Meade County. Unemployment in Meade County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 2.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Meade County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ekron is a very small city in Meade County, Kentucky, home to few people. Incomes in town run well below the county's, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and summers warm, with a good deal of rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, restaurants and hotels, and the building trades. Across Meade County, the largest workplaces include Meade County Schools, Nucor Steel Brandenburg and Monument Chemical Kentucky. Unemployment in the county is close to where it stood a year earlier, and the county has added a few more jobs.
Things to do. A short drive away, Squire Boone Caverns is a cave attraction, and Otter Creek Outdoor Recreation Area is a protected area for time outdoors. A longer drive brings you to the General George Patton Museum of Leadership, a museum with a military focus, and to Wyandotte Caves, another cave attraction.
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- 7%of adults have a degree
What people in Meade County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Meade County had 5,372 jobs in 2025, 2.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 65°. About 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Brandenburg weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Meade County
- Meade County SchoolsSchool district643FTE
- Nucor Steel BrandenburgArmor plate made in iron and steel mills500
- Monument Chemical KentuckyOrgano-inorganic compound manufacturing198
- Moss & AssociatesSolar power structure construction160
- Kroger Louisville KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores149
- Brandenburg LocationTelecommunications carriers, wired140
- Powers Paper CompanyPaper products, die-cut, made from purchased paper or paperboard101
- Levy Environmental Services CompanyMini-mills, steel83
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 15 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,664 people in all across the county; Ekron has none 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively 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 Ekron’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 Meade County and the Elizabethtown-Fort Knox, KY metro.
Ekron home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ekron$268,578
- 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.
- Ekron5
Zip codes with a Ekron address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ekron — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.