Irvine, Kentucky.
Typical home $117,138 (-7.8% in a year). Richmond-Berea, KY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$267 (+77%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $9,848 -8%
- $126,986$117,138 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $524 +0%
- $116,614$117,138 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.
- Irvine$615
- Kentucky$1,212
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Irvine, KY fell 7.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Irvine, Estill County, Kentucky
Irvine is a city of 2,360 people in Estill County. Half its households earn more than $42,805 a year and half less, against $46,051 across Estill County; 19% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Estill County was 5.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Estill 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Irvine is a small city and the seat of Estill County in eastern Kentucky. Household incomes here run below the county's, and the typical home is modestly priced. Residents are of middle age on the whole, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many parts of the country.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail and the building trades also employing many. The largest workplaces in Irvine include Estill County Schools and Marcum & Wallace Memorial Hospital. Very few people work from home, and the county has seen jobs slip slightly over the past year.
Things to do. Natural Bridge State Resort Park and Red River Gorge are protected areas of woods and rock country, each a longer drive away. Daniel Boone National Forest, also a longer drive, offers wider stretches of woodland, and the Red River runs through the same region. Winters are cold and summers warm, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow across the year.
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- 1,184households
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 5%work from home
What people in Estill County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Estill County had 2,261 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 64°. About 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cressy weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Irvine
- Estill County SchoolsSchool district355FTE
- Marcum & Wallace Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital120FTE
- Chfs DcbsState government25
- IrvineMail and parcel delivery20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 229 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively 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 Irvine’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Estill County and the Richmond-Berea, KY metro.
Irvine home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Irvine$117,138
- Kentucky$230,909
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Irvine listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Irvine27.60%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Irvine37
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Irvine8
Zip codes with a Irvine address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Irvine — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.