Greenup, Kentucky.
Typical home $133,059 (-2.7% in a year). Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$337 (+93%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,733 -3%
- $136,792$133,059 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $20,552 +18%
- $112,507$133,059 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.
- Greenup$698
- Kentucky$1,212
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 21 years.
Typical home values in Greenup, KY fell 2.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Greenup, Greenup County, Kentucky
Greenup is a city of 1,095 people in Greenup County. Unemployment in Greenup County was 5.4% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most people in Greenup 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Greenup is a small river city in northeastern Kentucky, and its people are older than in most places, with a median age well above the national figure. Homes here cost less than in much of the country, and household incomes in the county sit modestly below what many Americans earn, while a noticeable share of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and some snow falls each year. Summers are warm and the year brings a good deal of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing and in the building trades. Across Greenup County, the largest workplaces include Greenup County Schools, Graf Brothers Flooring and Cintas. Unemployment across the county has stayed close to where it was a year earlier, and the number of jobs has held steady. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than in the country as a whole.
Things to do. The Little Sandy River runs in or beside town, which makes water close at hand. A short drive away are Greenbo Lake, a reservoir, and Greenbo Lake State Resort Park, a protected area for time outdoors. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Carter Caves State Resort Park, another protected area.
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- 15%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
What people in Greenup County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Greenup County had 7,006 jobs in 2025, about as many as 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 Greenup County
- Greenup County SchoolsSchool district458FTE
- Russell Independent SchoolsSchool district318FTE
- Graf Brothers FlooringWood flooring manufacturing315
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter157
- CintasGeneral warehousing & storage152
- Raceland-Worthington Independent SchoolsSchool district151FTE
- Kroger Mid-Atlantic KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores113
- Superior Environmental Solutions - GreenupEnvironmental remediation services110
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 14 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,250 people in all across the county; Greenup has one 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
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively 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 Greenup’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 Greenup County and the Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH metro.
Greenup home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Greenup$133,059
- 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 Greenup address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Greenup — 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.