Mount Eden, Kentucky.
Typical home $242,936 (+18.9% in a year). Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$849 (+199%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $38,576 +19%
- $204,360$242,936 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $85,605 +54%
- $157,331$242,936 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.
- Mount Eden$1,275
- Kentucky$1,212
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 8 years.
Typical home values in Mount Eden, KY rose 18.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mount Eden, Spencer County, Kentucky
The Census does not count Mount Eden on its own, so the figures here are Spencer County's. Half the county's households earn more than $102,618 a year and half less; 10% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 88% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 12% are rented. Unemployment in Spencer County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Spencer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mount Eden is a community in Spencer County, in north-central Kentucky. Winters are colder than in most of the country, with January the coldest month, and summers are hot, with July the warmest. A good deal of rain and melted snow falls over the year.
Work. Across Spencer County, most homes are lived in by their owners, and fewer people work from home than in many places. Unemployment is low and has edged up slightly over the past year, while the number of jobs has grown. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, manufacturing, professional and business services, or transport, warehouses and utilities, and commutes tend to run on the longer side.
Things to do. Taylorsville Lake State Park and Beaver Lake are both a short drive away, offering a protected area and a reservoir for time outdoors. For a longer outing, Old Fort Harrod State Park is a museum a longer drive away.
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- 7,308households
- 42.9median age
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 33 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
What people in Spencer County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Spencer County had 2,284 jobs in 2025, 2.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 64°. About 52 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Taylorsville Lake weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Spencer County
- Spencer County SchoolsSchool district447FTE
- Signature HealthcareSkilled nursing facilities102
- TaylorsvilleMail and parcel delivery37
- J.A. BennettDistribution of natural gas23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 162 people in all. School districts come 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
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 Spencer 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 Spencer County and the Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN metro.
Mount Eden home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mount Eden$242,936
- 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.
- Mount Eden8
Zip codes with a Mount Eden address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mount Eden — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.