Kevil, Kentucky.
Typical home $177,806 (-5.1% in a year). Paducah, KY-IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$474 (+103%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $9,572 -5%
- $187,379$177,806 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $33,664 +23%
- $144,143$177,806 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.
- Kevil$933
- Kentucky$1,212
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Kevil, KY fell 5.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Kevil, Ballard County, Kentucky
Kevil is a city of 595 people in Ballard County. 76% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. Unemployment in Ballard County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 3.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Kevil is a very small Kentucky town in Ballard County, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes across the county sit a little above what many nearby small towns see, and a fair number of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are hot, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a good deal over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades also employing many. Across Ballard County, some of the largest workplaces are Phoenix Paper Company, Ballard County Schools and Ingevity's Wickliffe Carbon Plant. A typical commute is a modest one, and only a small share of people work from home. Unemployment across the county has eased slightly over the past year, though there are fewer jobs in the county than there were the year before.
Things to do. The Tennessee River and the Cumberland River are both a longer drive away, and they draw people who like being near big water. Wickliffe Mounds is an archaeological site, also a longer drive off, that speaks to the long Native American history of the Mississippi River country. Cypress Creek National Wildlife Refuge is a protected area, again a longer drive away, for people who enjoy quiet time among wetland woods and wildlife.
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- 24%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Ballard County had 1,923 jobs in 2025, 3.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 69°. About 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the West Paducah 2W weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Ballard County
- Mission Conversion Services AllianceHydrofluoric acid manufacturing443
- Phoenix Paper CompanyPulp and paper combined manufacturing325
- Mid-America Conversion ServicesMfgr. of hydrofluoric acid224
- Ballard County SchoolsSchool district171FTE
- Ingevity - Wickliffe Carbon PlantActivated carbon or charcoal manufacturing104
- Life Care Center of La CenterSkilled nursing facilities93
- American River Transportation Co40
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,229 people in all across the county; Kevil 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 stormsVery high
- Strong windVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Kevil’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 Ballard County and the Paducah, KY-IL metro.
Kevil home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kevil$177,806
- 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.
- Kevil11
Zip codes with a Kevil address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kevil — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.