Garrison, Kentucky.
Typical home $103,824 (-8.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$266 (+95%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $9,202 -8%
- $113,026$103,824 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $4,647 +5%
- $99,177$103,824 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.
- Garrison$545
- Kentucky$1,212
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 76 years.
Typical home values in Garrison, KY fell 8.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Garrison, Lewis County, Kentucky
Garrison, in Lewis County, had 731 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Lewis County was 6.9% in August 2026, and the county had 3.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lewis County work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Garrison is a small community in Lewis County, Kentucky, with a population that makes it a place where neighbors tend to know one another. Homes here are priced well within reach compared with much of the country, and household incomes across Lewis County sit below those of most of the nation. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and there is a fair amount of snow; summers are warm, and July is the warmest month. Rain and melted snow add up to a good deal over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, in manufacturing and in shops. Across Lewis County, some of the largest workplaces are PrimaryPlus, a physicians' practice, Lewis County Schools, and Coroplast, which makes polypropylene film and sheet. Unemployment across the county is high and has eased slightly from a year ago, and there were somewhat fewer jobs in the county last year than the year before.
Things to do. Shawnee State Park, a protected area, and Shawnee State Forest are both a short drive away, and the small streams Rabbit Run and Turkey Creek are close by as well. For a longer drive, Carter Caves State Resort Park is a protected area worth the trip, and Portsmouth Earthworks is an archaeological site that shows how people lived here long ago.
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What people in Lewis County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lewis County had 1,912 jobs in 2025, 3.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 63°. About 21 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Warnock weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lewis County
- PrimaryPlusPhysicians' offices476
- Lewis County SchoolsSchool district334FTE
- Journey CZ ofSkilled nursing facilities122
- CoroplastPolypropylene film and unlaminated sheet manufacturing105
- Superior Composites CoGlass products made from purchased glass104
- Nelson BrothersExplosives manufacturing & distribution61
- Trace Creek ConstructionConstruction management, commercial and institutional building41
- Gateway Community Action - Vanceburg HSCommunity action service agencies22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 952 people in all across the county; Garrison has none of its own. 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Garrison’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Lewis County.
Garrison home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Garrison$103,824
- 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.
- Garrison5
Zip codes with a Garrison address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Garrison — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Garrison
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 41141 | Garrison | 2,438 | — | $106,573 |
| 41166 | Quincy | 1,286 | — | $112,873 |