Hitchins, Kentucky.
Typical home $107,076 (-2.9% in a year). Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$320 (+132%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,144 -3%
- $110,220$107,076 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $24,713 +30%
- $82,363$107,076 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.
- Hitchins$562
- Kentucky$1,212
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Hitchins, KY fell 2.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hitchins, Carter County, Kentucky
The Census does not count Hitchins on its own, so the figures here are Carter County's. Half the county's households earn more than $51,235 a year and half less; 19% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 80% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. Unemployment in Carter County was 6.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Carter County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hitchins is a small town in Carter County, in northeastern Kentucky. Winters are cold, summers are warm, and the area gets a fair amount of snow and rain through the year. Most homes across Carter County are lived in by their owners, and the community is one where neighbors often know one another.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and manufacturing is another major source of jobs, along with shops and the building trades. Across the county, job numbers slipped slightly in the most recent year, and unemployment has eased a little since last year. Not many adults hold a four-year degree, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. Grayson Lake State Park is a short drive away and offers a lake and state parkland to enjoy. Carter Caves State Resort Park, a longer drive away, is known for its caves. The Huntington Museum of Art, also a longer drive away, offers a museum visit for a day out.
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- 10,794households
- 41.4median age
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Carter County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Carter County had 5,573 jobs in 2025, 1.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 63°. About 18 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Grayson East weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Carter County
- Carter County SchoolsSchool district635FTE
- Smithfield PackagingHams, preserved, made from purchased carcasses488
- Northeast Kentucky Community Action AgencyCommunity action service agencies252
- Kentucky Christian UniversityUniversity or college150
- KY Dept. of ParksParks, nature81
- Chfs DcbsState government40
- Fortrex - 0222 Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp. - GraysonJanitorial services32
- GraysonMail and parcel delivery27
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,042 people in all. School districts come 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
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Carter 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 Carter County and the Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH metro.
Hitchins home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hitchins$107,076
- 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 Hitchins address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hitchins — 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.