Ransom, Kentucky.
Typical home $68,635 (-13.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$150 (+72%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $10,415 -13%
- $79,050$68,635 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $4,789 -7%
- $73,424$68,635 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.
- Ransom$360
- Kentucky$1,212
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Ransom, KY fell 13.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ransom, Pike County, Kentucky
The Census does not count Ransom on its own, so the figures here are Pike County's. Half the county's households earn more than $44,312 a year and half less; 24% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 75% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in Pike County was 6.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Pike County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ransom sits in Pike County, in the hills of eastern Kentucky. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and the population is older than across the country as a whole. A larger share of residents live below the poverty line than across the country, and homes are typically valued well below the national level. Winters are cold and the town gets some snow, while summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall heavily through the year.
Work. Across Pike County, unemployment has held steady over the past year, and the number of jobs slipped slightly in the most recent year. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, or in professional and business services. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across most of the country, and few people work from home, so most commutes are to a workplace outside the home.
Things to do. Blackberry Creek, a river, is a short drive away and Breaks Interstate Park, a protected area, is a longer drive away. The West Virginia Mine Wars Museum, a museum, is also a short drive away.
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- 24,284households
- 43.3median age
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 24%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Pike County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pike County had 20,166 jobs in 2025, 1.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 46° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 66°. About 13 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Williamson weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pike County
- Pikeville Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,832FTE
- Pike County SchoolsSchool district1,340FTE
- University of PikevilleUniversity or college440
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters438
- KYTC District 12321
- Kellogg CompanyBakery products, dry, manufacturing314
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters273
- TUG Valley ARHGeneral hospital272FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 41 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,157 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts 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
- LandslidesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively 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 Pike County, 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 Pike County.
Ransom home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ransom$68,635
- 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.
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Zip codes with a Ransom address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ransom — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Ransom
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 41555 | Pinsonfork | 1,039 | — | $62,029 |
| 41558 | Ransom | 978 | — | $78,394 |