Emmalena, Kentucky.
Typical home $82,180 (-19.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$223 (+107%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $19,479 -19%
- $101,658$82,180 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $3,234 +4%
- $78,946$82,180 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.
- Emmalena$431
- Kentucky$1,212
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 86 years.
Typical home values in Emmalena, KY fell 19.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Emmalena, Knott County, Kentucky
The Census does not count Emmalena on its own, so the figures here are Knott County's. Half the county's households earn more than $41,761 a year and half less; 23% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 73% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 27% are rented. Unemployment in Knott County was 5.8% in August 2026, and the county had 2.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Knott County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Emmalena is a small community in Knott County, in the hills of eastern Kentucky, where creeks and wooded ridges shape daily life. Across Knott County, residents are older than the typical American, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are colder than in much of the country, with a fair amount of snow, while summers are warm and the year is quite wet, with rain and melted snow falling generously throughout.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in government, and in banks, insurance and property. Unemployment has eased over the past year, and the county has added a little more jobs than it had before. Incomes run lower than the typical American household's, and a larger share of people live in poverty than across the country, while fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many other parts of the country.
Things to do. Robinson Forest, a protected area, is a short drive away and suits those who enjoy quiet walks among the trees. Hindman Settlement School, a museum, is also a short drive off, and Carr Creek Lake, a reservoir, sits a short drive away for a peaceful afternoon by the water.
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- 5,521households
- 44.6median age
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 23%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Knott County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Knott County had 2,208 jobs in 2025, 2.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 45° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 64°. About 17 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Skyline Southeast weather station, 19 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Knott County
- Knott County SchoolsSchool district377FTE
- Alice Lloyd CollegeUniversity or college116
- Thacker Grigsby Telephone CompanyLocal exchange112
- Thacker-Grigsby Telephone CoLocal exchange carrier112
- T.V. ServiceCable tv providers30
- Knott County Medical ClinicCommunity health centers and clinics, outpatient29
- Chfs DcbsState government23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 306 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Knott County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Knott County.
Emmalena home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Emmalena$82,180
- 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 Emmalena address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Emmalena — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.