Perryville, Kentucky.
Typical home $223,034 (-2.1% in a year). Danville, KY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$647 (+124%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,668 -2%
- $227,702$223,034 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $45,785 +26%
- $177,249$223,034 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.
- Perryville$1,171
- Kentucky$1,212
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Perryville, KY fell 2.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Perryville, Boyle County, Kentucky
Perryville is a city of 782 people in Boyle County. Half its households earn more than $62,552 a year and half less, against $61,159 across Boyle County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 83% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 17% are rented. Unemployment in Boyle County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Boyle 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Perryville is a very small Kentucky town where most homes are lived in by their owners, and the residents skew older than the typical American town. Household incomes sit a little above the Boyle County median, and the share of people living below the poverty line is modest. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, summers are warm, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and restaurants, hotels and entertainment also providing many jobs. Across Boyle County, the largest workplaces include Ephraim Mcdowell Regional Medical Center, Centre College and American Greetings. Few people work from home, and the county has seen slightly fewer jobs than a year earlier, while unemployment there has eased a little over the past year.
Things to do. Perryville Battlefield State Historic Site, an archaeological site, lies in or beside town. A short drive away are Old Fort Harrod State Park and Constitution Square State Historic Site, both museums, and the Salt River is also a short drive off. For more of a trip, Herrington Lake, a reservoir, and Camp Nelson National Monument are a longer drive away.
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- 11%below the poverty line
- 4%work from home
What people in Boyle County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Boyle County had 14,509 jobs in 2025, 1.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 65°. About 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Danville weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Boyle County
- Ephraim Mcdowell REG MED CTRGeneral hospital977FTE
- Centre CollegeUniversity or college489
- American GreetingsGreeting cards merchant wholesalers488
- Kentucky Department of CorrectionsCorrectional institutions397
- Boyle County SchoolsSchool district385FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters368
- Dana Inc. (Danville Facility)Automotive parts manufacturer359
- Danville Independent SchoolsSchool district312FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 28 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,807 people in all across the county; Perryville has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Perryville’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 Boyle County and the Danville, KY metro.
Perryville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Perryville$223,034
- 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.
- Perryville5
Zip codes with a Perryville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Perryville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.