Leitchfield, Kentucky.
Typical home $162,903 (-16.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$361 (+73%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $33,028 -17%
- $195,931$162,903 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $4,301 -3%
- $167,204$162,903 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.
- Leitchfield$855
- Kentucky$1,212
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Leitchfield, KY fell 16.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Leitchfield, Grayson County, Kentucky
Leitchfield is a city of 6,404 people in Grayson County. Half its households earn more than $44,347 a year and half less, against $50,757 across Grayson County; 24% of its people live below the poverty line. 50% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 50% are rented. Unemployment in Grayson County was 5.5% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Leitchfield is a small city and the seat of Grayson County, with a population older than in many American towns. Incomes here run below the county's, and a good many households live below the poverty line. Homes are split evenly between owners and renters, and few adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, restaurants and hotels, and the building trades. Among the largest workplaces in Leitchfield are Grayson County Schools, TI Automotive and Walmart. The county has lost some jobs over the past year, and unemployment is a little lower than a year earlier. Most people have a commute of a fairly short drive, and few work from home.
Things to do. Mammoth Cave National Park is the best known place nearby, a national park a longer drive away. Rough River Lake and Rough River Dam State Resort Park, both also a longer drive off, suit time on the water and in a protected area. Horse Cave, a tourist attraction, is another longer drive away. Winters are cold with a little snow, summers are warm, and the year brings plenty of rain.
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- 2,741households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 24%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Grayson County had 7,242 jobs in 2025, 3.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 64°. About 9 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Leitchfield North weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Leitchfield
- Grayson County SchoolsSchool district612FTE
- TI AutomotiveMotor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, manufacturing402
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters368
- Owensboro Health Twin Lakes MedicalGeneral hospital248FTE
- Core-Mark Leitchfield243
- Encore Health PartnersNursing homes110
- The New York Blower Company - LeitchfieldFans, industrial and commercial-type, manufacturing88
- OFS BrandsHardwood dimension lumber and stock, resawing purchased lumber77
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,825 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Winter weatherrelatively high in parts of LeitchfieldRelatively moderate
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of LeitchfieldRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Leitchfield’s census tracts, 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 Grayson County.
Leitchfield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Leitchfield$162,903
- Kentucky$230,909
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Leitchfield 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.
- Leitchfield28.80%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Leitchfield111
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Leitchfield22
Zip codes with a Leitchfield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Leitchfield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.