Ledbetter, Kentucky.
Typical home $174,860 (+3.8% in a year). Paducah, KY-IL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$550 (+149%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,446 +4%
- $168,414$174,860 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $53,103 +44%
- $121,757$174,860 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.
- Ledbetter$918
- Kentucky$1,212
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Ledbetter, KY rose 3.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ledbetter, Livingston County, Kentucky
Ledbetter, in Livingston County, had 1,836 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Livingston County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 2.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Livingston 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ledbetter is a small community in Livingston County, Kentucky, and its residents are younger than in many American towns. Few adults hold a four-year degree. Homes here cost less than in much of the country, and household incomes across the county run below the national picture.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, the building trades and professional and business services close behind. Few people work from home. Across Livingston County, the biggest workplaces include Livingston County Schools, Livingston Hospital and Jim Smith Contracting Co, an oil field road construction firm. Unemployment in the county is about where it was a year ago, and the county has gained a few more jobs than the year before.
Things to do. Kincaid Mounds State Historic Site, an archaeological site, sits in or beside town, as does Clarks River. A short drive away are the Tennessee River and Cumberland River, and Fort Anderson is also close. For a longer outing, Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area, a protected area, is a longer drive away. Winters are cold with little snow, summers are hot, and the year brings plenty of rain.
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- 631households
- 7%of adults have a degree
- 6%work from home
What people in Livingston County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Livingston County had 3,489 jobs in 2025, 2.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 69°. About 4 inches of snow and 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Smithland L&d weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Livingston County
- Jim Smith Contracting CoOil field road construction200
- Livingston County SchoolsSchool district189FTE
- Livingston HospitalCritical access hospital154FTE
- Atrium CentersHomes for the elderly with nursing care36
- Reliable ElectricElectrical, electrical wiring, and low voltage electrical work28
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 264 people in all across the county; Ledbetter has none of its own. 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ledbetter’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 Livingston County and the Paducah, KY-IL metro.
Ledbetter home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ledbetter$174,860
- Kentucky$230,909
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
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.
- Ledbetter14
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Ledbetter address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ledbetter — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.