Manitou, Kentucky.
Typical home $213,470 (-3.1% in a year). Madisonville, KY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$637 (+132%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $6,779 -3%
- $220,249$213,470 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $58,278 +38%
- $155,192$213,470 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.
- Manitou$1,120
- Kentucky$1,212
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Manitou, KY fell 3.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Manitou, Hopkins County, Kentucky
Manitou, in Hopkins County, had 173 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Hopkins County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Hopkins 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Manitou is a very small community in Hopkins County, Kentucky, home to only a handful of residents. Homes here are valued below what is typical for the country as a whole, and the county's household incomes sit in a modest range. Winters bring real cold, with January the chilliest month, while July is hot, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades also employing many people. Across Hopkins County, some of the largest workplaces are Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville, Hopkins County Schools and Carhartt. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than it was a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. The nearest outdoor choices are all a longer drive away. Pennyrile State Forest and Pennyrile Forest State Resort Park are protected woodland areas, and Lake Beshear is a lake for time on the water. The Tradewater River offers a quieter stretch of river within the same longer drive.
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What people in Hopkins County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hopkins County had 17,329 jobs in 2025, 1.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 45° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 70°. About 52 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Madisonville weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hopkins County
- Baptist Health DeaconessmadisonvilleGeneral hospital965FTE
- Hopkins County SchoolsSchool district910FTE
- CarharttGeneral warehousing and storage783
- Webstaurant StoreGeneral warehousing and storage499
- Quanta ServicesLow voltage electrical work475
- GE Aviation458
- Berry Global - Madisonville382
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters343
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 52 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,100 people in all across the county; Manitou 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- Strong windVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Manitou’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 Hopkins County and the Madisonville, KY metro.
Manitou home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Manitou$213,470
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Manitou address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Manitou — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Manitou
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 42413 | Hanson | 2,597 | — | $244,138 |
| 42436 | Manitou | 1,539 | — | $223,445 |