Knifley, Kentucky.
Typical home $135,297 (-16.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$361 (+104%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $26,886 -17%
- $162,183$135,297 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $2,661 +2%
- $132,636$135,297 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.
- Knifley$710
- Kentucky$1,212
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Knifley, KY fell 16.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Knifley, Adair County, Kentucky
The Census does not count Knifley on its own, so the figures here are Adair County's. Half the county's households earn more than $53,553 a year and half less; 18% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 77% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 23% are rented. Unemployment in Adair County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 2.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Adair 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Knifley is a small community in Adair County, in south-central Kentucky. Most homes here are lived in by their owners, and the typical resident is in midlife. Winters are cold, summers are warm, snow is light, and rain comes fairly often through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in manufacturing, retail and the building trades. Unemployment has eased over the past year, and the county gained jobs in the most recent year. Most workers drive to their jobs, and a minority work from home.
Things to do. Green River Lake, a reservoir, and Green River Lake State Park, a protected area, are both a short drive away. Mill Springs Battlefield National Monument, also a protected area, is a longer drive and commemorates a Civil War battle. Lake Cumberland, another reservoir, is a longer drive away as well.
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- 7,136households
- 39.7median age
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What people in Adair County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Adair County had 5,091 jobs in 2025, 2.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 65°. About 5 inches of snow and 57 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Jamestown Wwtp weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Adair County
- Lindsey Wilson CollegeUniversity or college472
- Adair County SchoolsSchool district391FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters287
- McCloudMedical286
- Circor Pumping TechnologiesManufacturing128
- Gaddie ShamrockAsphalt paving103
- Signature HealthcareSkilled nursing facilities87
- Goodwill IndustriesUsed merchandise stores55
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,131 people in all. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Adair County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Adair County.
Knifley home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Knifley$135,297
- 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 Knifley address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Knifley — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.