Ezel, Kentucky.
Typical home $146,943 (-6.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$389 (+102%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $9,831 -6%
- $156,774$146,943 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $19,506 +15%
- $127,438$146,943 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.
- Ezel$771
- Kentucky$1,212
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 24 years.
Typical home values in Ezel, KY fell 6.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ezel, Morgan County, Kentucky
Ezel, in Morgan County, had 209 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Morgan County was 4.9% in August 2026, and the county had 3.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Morgan 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ezel is a very small community in Morgan County, in the hills of eastern Kentucky, with Broke Leg Creek running in or beside town. Winters are cold and bring some snow, while summers turn warm, and the year is fairly wet. Homes here cost less than in much of the country, and incomes in the area sit below the national picture, though only a small share of residents live below the poverty line.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, government and shops also employing many people. Across Morgan County, some of the largest workplaces are the Eastern Kentucky Correctional Complex, Morgan County Schools and Morgan CO. ARH, a critical access hospital. Unemployment in the county is a little lower than a year earlier, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Broke Leg Creek is a river in or beside town, and the Red River Gorge, a protected area, and the Clifty Wilderness are both a short drive away. Natural Bridge State Resort Park, another protected area, is a longer drive away, as is Cave Run Lake, a reservoir. Together they make the area a good base for walking, paddling and time outdoors.
Report a mistake
- 7%below the poverty line
What people in Morgan County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Morgan County had 3,181 jobs in 2025, 3.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 62°. About 12 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the West Liberty 3NW weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Morgan County
- Eastern Kentucky Correctional ComplexCorrectional institutions421
- Morgan County SchoolsSchool district314FTE
- Morgan Co. ARHCritical access hospital95FTE
- Frederick & May ConstructionRoad construction89
- Crossroads ServicesTelecommunications equipment and wiring installation contractors76
- Gateway Community Action - Central OfficeCommunity action service agencies63
- Caseys FoodsGrocery stores60
- john waynePest control services, agricultural28
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 887 people in all across the county; Ezel has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ezel’s census tracts, 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 Morgan County.
Ezel home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ezel$146,943
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Ezel address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ezel — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.