Fort Wright, Kentucky.
Typical home $337,503 (+1.5% in a year), asking rent $1,658 . Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$915 (+107%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,084 +2%
- $332,418$337,503 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $58,321 +21%
- $279,182$337,503 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.
- Fort Wright$1,771
- Kentucky$1,212
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Fort Wright, KY rose 1.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Fort Wright, Kenton County, Kentucky
Fort Wright is a city of 5,851 people in Kenton County. 71% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 29% are rented. Unemployment in Kenton County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fort Wright is a small city in Kenton County, Kentucky, and most of its homes are lived in by their owners. Few households live below the poverty line, and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers turn warm, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow spread through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in professional and business services, manufacturing, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Kenton County Schools, Walmart and the Transit Authority of Northern Kentucky are among the largest workplaces in the city. Commutes are fairly short, and a modest share of people work from home.
Things to do. Several well-known Cincinnati attractions are a short drive away, including the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden and the Cincinnati Art Museum. The Newport Aquarium is also close by, and the Licking River is nearby for time spent by the water.
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- 2,315households
- 45%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Kenton County had 75,385 jobs in 2025, 1.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 66°. About 23 inches of snow and 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cincinnati Northern Ky Airport weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Fort Wright
- Kenton County SchoolsSchool district1,652FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters374
- Transit Authority of Northern KentuckyBus transit systems270
- Sanitation District # 1 - Main OfficeWaste collection, treatment, and disposal through a sewer system195
- Interplastic Corporation Fort WrightPlastics and synthetic resins regenerating, precipitating, and coagulating72
- Rusk Heating and CoolingPlumbing and heating contractors27
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 938 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 windRelatively high
- Tornadoesrelatively high in parts of Fort WrightRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesrelatively high in parts of Fort WrightRelatively moderate
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of Fort WrightRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Fort Wright’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Kenton County and the Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN metro.
Fort Wright home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fort Wright$337,503
- Kentucky$230,909
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 2 Fort Wright 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.
- Fort Wright45.71%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Fort Wright20
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Fort Wright10
Zip codes with a Fort Wright address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fort Wright — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.