Fleming-Neon, Kentucky.
Typical home $42,406 (-17.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$27 (+14%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $8,723 -17%
- $51,128$42,406 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $13,514 -24%
- $55,920$42,406 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.
- Fleming-Neon$223
- Kentucky$1,212
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Fleming-Neon, KY fell 17.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Fleming-Neon, Letcher County, Kentucky
Fleming-Neon is a city of 548 people in Letcher County. 90% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 10% are rented. Unemployment in Letcher County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 3.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Letcher 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fleming-Neon is a very small city in Letcher County, in the mountains of eastern Kentucky. Nearly everyone who lives here owns their home, and homes cost far less than in most of the country. Winters are cold and summers are warm, with a good deal of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in transport and warehouses, and in government. Across Letcher County, Letcher County Schools, Whitesburg ARH and Mountain Comprehensive Health are among the largest workplaces. Household incomes in the county are modest, and the county has recently seen fewer jobs than the year before.
Things to do. The David A. Zegeer Coal-Railroad Museum is a short drive away, as is North Fork Pound Reservoir, a reservoir for time on the water. Pine Mountain Trail State Park is also a short drive away. For a longer outing, Breaks Interstate Park, a protected area, is a longer drive away.
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- 18%of adults have a degree
What people in Letcher County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Letcher County had 4,130 jobs in 2025, 3.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 64°. About 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Whitesburg 2SE weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Letcher County
- Letcher County SchoolsSchool district454FTE
- Whitesburg ARHGeneral hospital290FTE
- Mountain Comprehensive HealthCommunity health centers and clinics, outpatient248
- DJLM OperationsHomes for the elderly with nursing care129
- WalmartDiscount department stores129
- K VA T Food StoresSupermarket98
- Jenkins Independent SchoolsSchool district74FTE
- Childers Oil CompanyGasoline stations with convenience stores66
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 16 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,349 people in all across the county; Fleming-Neon 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Fleming-Neon’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 Letcher County.
Fleming-Neon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fleming-Neon$42,406
- 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 Fleming-Neon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fleming-Neon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.