Hanson, Kentucky.
Typical home $244,757 (-3.0% in a year). Madisonville, KY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$665 (+107%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $7,451 -3%
- $252,208$244,757 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $49,198 +25%
- $195,559$244,757 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.
- Hanson$1,285
- Kentucky$1,212
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Hanson, KY fell 3.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hanson, Hopkins County, Kentucky
Hanson is a city of 758 people in Hopkins County. Half its households earn more than $95,903 a year and half less, against $56,815 across Hopkins County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 91% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 9% are rented. Unemployment in Hopkins County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Hopkins 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hanson is a very small city in Hopkins County, Kentucky, where almost everyone lives in a home they own. Household incomes here run well above the county's, and fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect for a small Kentucky town. Winters are cold and summers are warm, with rain and melted snow spread fairly evenly through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades also employing many. Some of the largest workplaces across Hopkins County are Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville, Hopkins County Schools and Carhartt. Commutes are fairly short, and a modest number of people work from home.
Things to do. Pennyrile State Forest and Pennyrile Forest State Resort Park are protected areas for walking and time outdoors, each a longer drive away. Lake Beshear is a lake in the same direction, also a longer drive. Indian Knoll, an archaeological site, is another longer drive for those curious about the area's early history.
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- 23%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in Hopkins County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hopkins County had 17,329 jobs in 2025, 1.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 45° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 70°. About 52 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Madisonville weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hopkins County
- Baptist Health DeaconessmadisonvilleGeneral hospital965FTE
- Hopkins County SchoolsSchool district910FTE
- CarharttGeneral warehousing and storage783
- Webstaurant StoreGeneral warehousing and storage499
- Quanta ServicesLow voltage electrical work475
- GE Aviation458
- Berry Global - Madisonville382
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters343
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 52 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,100 people in all across the county; Hanson has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hanson’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 Hopkins County and the Madisonville, KY metro.
Hanson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hanson$244,757
- 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.
- Hanson17
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Hanson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hanson — 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.