Hawesville, Kentucky.
Typical home $214,428 (+8.3% in a year). Owensboro, KY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$651 (+137%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,440 +8%
- $197,989$214,428 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $62,447 +41%
- $151,981$214,428 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.
- Hawesville$1,125
- Kentucky$1,212
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Hawesville, KY rose 8.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hawesville, Hancock County, Kentucky
Hawesville is a city of 1,023 people in Hancock County. Unemployment in Hancock County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Hancock County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hawesville is a small city on the Ohio River and the seat of Hancock County, Kentucky. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers turn hot, while rain and melted snow come in good measure through the year. Homes here are valued below what is typical across much of the country, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many other places.
Work. Many residents work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in the building trades. The largest workplaces across Hancock County include Commonwealth Rolled Products, Southwire and Hancock County Schools. Most people have a short drive to work, and very few work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away, the Anderson River is a place for time near the water, and the Jeffry Cliff Petroglyphs are an archaeological site worth a visit. On a longer drive, the Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial is a protected area, and Holiday World & Splashin' Safari is an amusement park.
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- 546households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 17 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Hancock County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hancock County had 3,627 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 69°. About 11 inches of snow and 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cannelton weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hancock County
- Commonwealth Rolled ProductsAluminum sheet made by flat rolling purchased aluminum1,121
- SouthwireOther aluminum rolling, drawing, and extruding518
- Domtar0459
- Hancock County SchoolsSchool district269FTE
- Heartland Villa Health CenterNursing homes78
- Tristar ConstructionCommercial building construction general contractors41
- Precision Roll GrindersMachine shops20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,237 people in all across the county; Hawesville has none 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hawesville’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 Hancock County and the Owensboro, KY metro.
Hawesville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hawesville$214,428
- 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.
- Hawesville10
Zip codes with a Hawesville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hawesville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.