Means, Kentucky.
Typical home $155,212 (-20.3% in a year). Mount Sterling, KY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$363 (+80%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $39,435 -20%
- $194,646$155,212 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $4,352 +3%
- $150,859$155,212 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.
- Means$815
- Kentucky$1,212
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Means, KY fell 20.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Means, Menifee County, Kentucky
The Census does not count Means on its own, so the figures here are Menifee County's. Half the county's households earn more than $45,096 a year and half less; 27% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 76% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. Unemployment in Menifee County was 5.2% in August 2026, and the county had 2.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Menifee 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Means sits in Menifee County in eastern Kentucky, where most homes are lived in by their owners, a larger share than across most of the country. The county's residents are older on the whole than people in most of the nation, and poverty is more common here than across the country as a whole. Winters are colder than most of the country's, with a modest amount of snow and a good deal of rain through the year.
Work. Jobs have become fewer across the county lately, though unemployment has eased from its recent level. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in the building trades, or in professional and business services. A smaller share of adults hold a four-year degree than across the country, very few people work from home, and the typical commute is longer than in much of the country.
Things to do. Olympia State Forest, a protected area, is a short drive away and offers woods for walking and quiet outdoor time. Red River Gorge, also a protected area, and Cave Run Lake, a reservoir, are each a longer drive away.
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- 2,478households
- 46.2median age
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 27%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in Menifee County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Menifee County had 950 jobs in 2025, 2.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 63°. About 9 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mount Sterling weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Menifee County
- Menifee County SchoolsSchool district165FTE
- Usda UsfsRecreational programs administration, government123
- Menifee County Fiscal CourtExecutive offices, federal, state, and local81
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture39
- Gateway Community Action - Botts Early LearningCommunity action service agencies28
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 232 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
FEMA rates every natural hazard here relatively low or very low.
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Menifee 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 Menifee County and the Mount Sterling, KY metro.
Means home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Means$155,212
- 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.
- Means13
Zip codes with a Means address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Means — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.