Olaton, Kentucky.
Typical home $173,552 (-11.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$15 (+2%) since Nov 2023.
- 1 year
- Down $21,666 -11%
- $195,218$173,552 since Sep 2025
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.
- Olaton$911
- Kentucky$1,212
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Olaton, KY fell 11.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Olaton, Ohio County, Kentucky
The Census does not count Olaton on its own, so the figures here are Ohio County's. Half the county's households earn more than $57,798 a year and half less; 12% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 77% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 23% are rented. Unemployment in Ohio County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Ohio 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Olaton sits in Ohio County in western Kentucky, where most homes across the county are lived in by their owners. Across the county, the median age is middle-aged, and a noticeable share of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold and summers are hot, with light snow and a good deal of rain through the year.
Work. Across Ohio County, many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in the building trades, or in retail shops. Unemployment has eased from a year earlier, though the county had somewhat fewer jobs in the most recent year than the year before. Most people drive to work, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree.
Things to do. Bill Monroe Museum, a museum a short drive away, honors the musician often called the father of bluegrass. Rough River Dam State Resort Park, a protected area a longer drive away, and Indian Knoll, an archaeological site also a longer drive away, are both worth a day trip.
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- 9,107households
- 40.5median age
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Ohio County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Ohio County had 7,304 jobs in 2025, 1.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 65°. About 4 inches of snow and 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Rough River Lake weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Ohio County
- Perdue FoodsPoultry processing1,324
- Ohio County SchoolsSchool district611FTE
- Ohio County HospitalCritical access hospital423FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters263
- Young ManufacturingPlaning mills, millwork222
- Big Rivers Electric Corporation - Wilson StationElectric power generation, fossil fuel118
- Kimball InternationalDesks, wood office-type, manufacturing100
- Signature HealthcareSkilled nursing facilities98
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 18 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,469 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Ohio County, 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 Ohio County.
Olaton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Olaton$173,552
- 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 Olaton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Olaton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.