Glencoe, Kentucky.
Typical home $171,179 (-4.2% in a year). Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$495 (+122%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $7,487 -4%
- $178,667$171,179 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $28,036 +20%
- $143,144$171,179 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.
- Glencoe$898
- Kentucky$1,212
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Glencoe, KY fell 4.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Glencoe, Grant County, Kentucky
Glencoe is a city of 350 people in Grant County. Half its households earn more than $46,905 a year and half less, against $69,178 across Grant County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Grant County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Grant 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Glencoe is a very small city in Grant County, Kentucky, home to few people compared with most places in the state. Household incomes here run well below the county's, and homes are priced modestly. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and only a small number of people work from home. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn warm in July. Rain and melted snow come through the year in generous amounts.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, shops, and transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Grant County, the largest workplaces include Grant County Schools, the Dana Inc. automotive parts plant in Dry Ridge, and Walmart. Unemployment in the county is a little lower than a year ago, though the number of jobs there has slipped slightly.
Things to do. Kentucky Speedway, a race track, is a short drive away. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to the Kentucky River, and to Big Bone Lick State Park, a protected area good for a day outdoors. Ark Encounter, an amusement park, is also a longer drive from town.
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- 6%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 4%work from home
What people in Grant County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Grant County had 5,430 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 63°. About 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Glencoe Northwest weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Grant County
- Grant County SchoolsSchool district496FTE
- Dana Inc. (Dry Ridge Facility)Automotive parts manufacturer352
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters298
- Williamstown Independent SchoolsSchool district132FTE
- St Elizabeth - Grant CountyCritical access hospital116FTE
- Grant Healthcare & RehabilitationSkilled nursing facilities88
- Kentucky State PolicePolicing47
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 889 people in all across the county; Glencoe 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
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Glencoe’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 Grant County and the Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN metro.
Glencoe home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Glencoe$171,179
- 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.
- Glencoe5
Zip codes with a Glencoe address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Glencoe — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.