Pippa Passes, Kentucky.
Typical home $57,474 (-23.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$132 (+78%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $17,216 -23%
- $74,690$57,474 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $8,698 -13%
- $66,171$57,474 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.
- Pippa Passes$302
- Kentucky$1,212
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Pippa Passes, KY fell 23.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Pippa Passes, Knott County, Kentucky
Pippa Passes is a city of 468 people in Knott County. Unemployment in Knott County was 5.8% in August 2026, and the county had 2.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Knott County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pippa Passes is a very small city in Knott County, in the hills of eastern Kentucky, and its people are young for a place in this country, with a median age well below what is typical nationally. Nearly all adults here hold a four-year degree, which fits a town that has long grown up around a college. Homes are modestly priced, and household incomes across Knott County run below the national level.
Work. Residents most often work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, government, and banks, insurance and property. Across Knott County, the largest workplaces include Knott County Schools, Alice Lloyd College and Thacker Grigsby Telephone Company. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year ago, and the county has added jobs over the past year, while only a small share of residents work from home.
Things to do. Carr Creek State Park is a protected area a short drive away, and Carr Creek Lake, a reservoir also close by, suits time on the water. The Hindman Settlement School, a museum a short drive away, is a good stop for anyone curious about the region's history. A longer drive leads to Robinson Forest, another protected area. Winters are cold and summers warm, with a good deal of rain and melted snow through the year.
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- 94%of adults have a degree
- 6%work from home
What people in Knott County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Knott County had 2,208 jobs in 2025, 2.4% more 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 82° and lows near 64°. About 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Whitesburg 2SE weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Knott County
- Knott County SchoolsSchool district377FTE
- Alice Lloyd CollegeUniversity or college116
- Thacker Grigsby Telephone CompanyLocal exchange112
- Thacker-Grigsby Telephone CoLocal exchange carrier112
- T.V. ServiceCable tv providers30
- Knott County Medical ClinicCommunity health centers and clinics, outpatient29
- Chfs DcbsState government23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 306 people in all across the county; Pippa Passes has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Inland floodingVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Pippa Passes’ census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Knott County.
Pippa Passes home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pippa Passes$57,474
- 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 Pippa Passes address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pippa Passes — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.