Fulton, Kentucky.
Typical home $110,985 (-2.1% in a year). Mayfield, KY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$333 (+134%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,370 -2%
- $113,356$110,985 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $28,337 +34%
- $82,649$110,985 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.
- Fulton$583
- Kentucky$1,212
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Fulton, KY fell 2.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Fulton, Fulton County, Kentucky
Fulton is a city of 2,357 people in Fulton County. Half its households earn more than $36,040 a year and half less, against $38,217 across Fulton County; 31% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Fulton County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Fulton County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fulton is a small city in far western Kentucky, with homes that cost well below what is typical across the country. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and a larger share of residents live below the poverty line than is usual nationally. Relatively few adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in shops, with banks, insurance and property also employing many. Among the biggest workplaces in town are Berry Global, which makes plastic pails and other goods, Walmart, and Fulton Independent Schools. Commutes are short, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Winters are cold and summers hot, with only a little snow and plenty of rain. Reelfoot Lake and Reelfoot Lake State Park, a lake and a protected area, are a longer drive away, as is Discovery Park of America, a museum. Big Oak Tree State Park, also a longer drive away, protects some very large old trees.
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- 983households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 31%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Fulton County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Fulton County had 2,250 jobs in 2025, 0.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 46° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 70°. About 3 inches of snow and 55 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Martin U Of T Branch East weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Fulton
- Berry Global - FultonPails, plastics, manufacturing225
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters149
- Fulton Independent SchoolsSchool district70FTE
- Fulton Nursing and RehabilitationNursing homes55
- FultonMail and parcel delivery20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 449 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- Strong windVery high
- EarthquakesVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Fulton’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Fulton County and the Mayfield, KY metro.
Fulton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fulton$110,985
- Kentucky$230,909
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Fulton listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Fulton24.49%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Fulton34
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Fulton6
Zip codes with a Fulton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fulton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.