Hazel, Kentucky.
Typical home $160,216 (-3.0% in a year). Murray, KY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$469 (+126%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,996 -3%
- $165,212$160,216 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $15,486 +11%
- $144,731$160,216 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.
- Hazel$841
- Kentucky$1,212
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 34 years.
Typical home values in Hazel, KY fell 3.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hazel, Calloway County, Kentucky
Hazel is a city of 390 people in Calloway County. Half its households earn more than $40,536 a year and half less, against $52,706 across Calloway County; 24% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Calloway County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Calloway 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hazel is a very small Kentucky city, the kind of place where residents tend to know one another. Household incomes run below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than is typical, though homes here cost less than in many parts of the country. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in larger college towns, even with a university in the county.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels also employing a good number. Across Calloway County, some of the largest workplaces are Murray State University, Murray Calloway County Hospital and Pella. The typical commute is a moderate one, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Within a short drive are Obion Mounds, an archaeological site, and Roy Stewart Stadium, a stadium for sports and events. Farther afield, a longer drive reaches Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area, a large protected area, and Fort Donelson National Battlefield, a Civil War site. Winters are cold with a little snow, summers are hot, and the year is fairly wet.
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- 22%of adults have a degree
- 24%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Calloway County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Calloway County had 15,612 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 46° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 69°. About 6 inches of snow and 58 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Murray weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Calloway County
- Paschall Truck LinesGeneral freight trucking, long-distance, truckload1,344
- Murray State UniversityUniversity or college1,229
- PellaWindows and window frames, plastics, manufacturing797
- Murray Calloway County HospitalGeneral hospital789FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters429
- Calloway County SchoolsSchool district421FTE
- Murray Independent SchoolsSchool district373FTE
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter138
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 40 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,582 people in all across the county; Hazel has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals 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 stormsRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hazel’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 Calloway County and the Murray, KY metro.
Hazel home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hazel$160,216
- 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.
- Hazel6
Zip codes with a Hazel address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hazel — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.