Maceo, Kentucky.
Typical home $184,875 (-4.5% in a year). Owensboro, KY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$449 (+86%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $8,642 -4%
- $193,517$184,875 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $18,393 +11%
- $166,483$184,875 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.
- Maceo$970
- Kentucky$1,212
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 33 years.
Typical home values in Maceo, KY fell 4.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Maceo, Daviess County, Kentucky
Maceo, in Daviess County, had 404 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Daviess County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Daviess 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Maceo is a very small community in Daviess County, Kentucky, with a population that makes it feel more like a handful of neighbors than a town. Very few residents live below the poverty line, and a typical home here is worth less than in much of the country. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, while July brings hot summer days. Rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and restaurants and hotels also employing many people. Unemployment across Daviess County has eased a little compared with a year earlier, and the county added a small number of jobs over the past year. Across Daviess County, the largest workplaces include Owensboro Health Regional Hospital, Daviess County Schools and Swedish Match. A typical commute is fairly short.
Things to do. A short drive away are Lincoln Pioneer Village, a museum, and the Western Kentucky Botanical Garden, which is good for a quiet walk. Blackford Creek, a river, is also a short drive away. For a longer outing, Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, a protected area, is a longer drive away.
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- 2%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
What people in Daviess County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Daviess County had 47,804 jobs in 2025, 1.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 67°. About 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Tell City weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Daviess County
- Owensboro Health Regional HospitalGeneral hospital2,032FTE
- Daviess County SchoolsSchool district1,656FTE
- Swedish MatchChewing tobacco manufacturing1,185
- Owensboro Independent SchoolsSchool district865FTE
- Audubon Area Community ServicesCommunity action service agencies724
- Toyotetsu Mid AmericaJob stampings, automotive, metal, manufacturing693
- Graywolf Integrated Construction CompanyAddition, alteration and renovation, general contractors, industrial building660
- SFGMeat products canning made from purchased carcasses658
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 101 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 17,537 people in all across the county; Maceo has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Maceo’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Daviess County and the Owensboro, KY metro.
Maceo home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Maceo$184,875
- 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 Maceo address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Maceo — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.