Guston, Kentucky.
Typical home $262,118 (-2.1% in a year). Elizabethtown-Fort Knox, KY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$778 (+130%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $5,587 -2%
- $267,705$262,118 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $56,663 +28%
- $205,456$262,118 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.
- Guston$1,376
- Kentucky$1,212
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Guston, KY fell 2.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Guston, Meade County, Kentucky
The Census does not count Guston on its own, so the figures here are Meade County's. Half the county's households earn more than $74,355 a year and half less; 12% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 74% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in Meade County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 2.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Meade County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Guston is a small town in Meade County, Kentucky, and most of the county's homes are lived in by their owners, so ownership is the common arrangement here. Typical home values sit at a level that many families in the county can reach, and the population skews toward middle age. Incomes are modest, and a fair share of households live below the poverty line, which shapes daily life for many neighbors who look out for one another.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in shops and restaurants, hotels and entertainment, with building trades also providing steady work. Unemployment has eased a little over the past year, and the number of jobs in the county grew slightly last year. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many parts of the country, and working from home is uncommon, so most people head out to a workplace each day, often on a fairly long commute.
Things to do. The General George Patton Museum of Leadership, a museum, is a longer drive away, and it is one of the best known places to visit from the area. Wyandotte Caves, a tourist attraction, and the Rough River, a river, are also a longer drive away, and Otter Creek Outdoor Recreation Area, a protected area, offers a quieter outing at a similar distance.
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- 11,007households
- 39.5median age
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 33 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What people in Meade County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Meade County had 5,372 jobs in 2025, 2.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 63°. About 52 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Corners weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Meade County
- Meade County SchoolsSchool district643FTE
- Nucor Steel BrandenburgArmor plate made in iron and steel mills500
- Monument Chemical KentuckyOrgano-inorganic compound manufacturing198
- Moss & AssociatesSolar power structure construction160
- Kroger Louisville KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores149
- Brandenburg LocationTelecommunications carriers, wired140
- Powers Paper CompanyPaper products, die-cut, made from purchased paper or paperboard101
- Levy Environmental Services CompanyMini-mills, steel83
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 15 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,664 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 moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Meade County, 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 Meade County and the Elizabethtown-Fort Knox, KY metro.
Guston home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Guston$262,118
- 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.
- Guston11
Zip codes with a Guston address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Guston — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.