Happy, Kentucky.
Typical home $103,219 (-3.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $10 (-2%) since Oct 2023.
- 1 year
- Down $3,834 -4%
- $107,052$103,219 since Sep 2025
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.
- Happy$542
- Kentucky$1,212
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Happy, KY fell 3.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Happy, Perry County, Kentucky
The Census does not count Happy on its own, so the figures here are Perry County's. Half the county's households earn more than $42,181 a year and half less; 27% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 70% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 30% are rented. Unemployment in Perry County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Perry 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Happy is a small community in Perry County, in the hills of eastern Kentucky. Most homes here are lived in by their owners, and home values are modest compared with much of the country. Many households have lower incomes than the national typical, and more residents live in poverty than across the country as a whole.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, shops, the building trades, and professional and business services. Unemployment has eased over the past year, although the number of jobs in the county has dipped a little. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across the country, and few people work from home, with most commuting out to their jobs in about the typical national time.
Things to do. Carr Creek State Park, a protected area a short drive away, offers wooded hills and open space for walking and quiet days outdoors. Carr Creek Lake, a reservoir also a short drive away, is a good place for water views. Lilley Cornett Woods, a park a longer drive away, and the Hindman Settlement School, a museum a longer drive away, make fuller day trips.
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- 11,078households
- 41.5median age
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 27%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Perry County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Perry County had 11,306 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 45° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 64°. About 17 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Skyline Southeast weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Perry County
- Hazard ARHGeneral hospital839FTE
- Perry County SchoolsSchool district607FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters379
- Hazard Community and Technical CollegeTwo-year college260
- Paul E. Patton Eastern Kentucky Veterans CenterNursing homes168
- Hazard Independent SchoolsSchool district164FTE
- Appalachian Regional HealthcarePhysicians' offices122
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter113
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 26 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,745 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Perry County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Perry County.
Happy home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Happy$103,219
- 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 Happy address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Happy — 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.