Reed, Kentucky.
Typical home $133,944 (-1.3% in a year). Evansville, IN-KY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$353 (+101%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,755 -1%
- $135,700$133,944 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $23,946 +22%
- $109,998$133,944 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.
- Reed$703
- Kentucky$1,212
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Reed, KY fell 1.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Reed, Henderson County, Kentucky
The Census does not count Reed on its own, so the figures here are Henderson County's. Half the county's households earn more than $58,851 a year and half less; 15% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 65% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 35% are rented. Unemployment in Henderson County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Henderson 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Reed sits in Henderson County in western Kentucky. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes trail the national average. Winters are cold with some snow, and summers are warm and wet, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops, or in the building trades. Unemployment across the county has eased slightly over the past year, though the number of jobs has dipped a little. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across the country, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Angel Mounds, a short drive away, is an archaeological site where visitors can learn about the people who lived in this region long ago. USS LST-325, a museum a longer drive away, is built around a navy landing ship from the war years. Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, also a longer drive away, is a protected area set aside as a national memorial.
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- 18,522households
- 40.9median age
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Henderson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Henderson County had 18,611 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 69°. About 7 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Newburgh L&d weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Henderson County
- Tyson ChickenPoultry processing1,274
- Henderson County SchoolsSchool district1,070FTE
- Gibbs Die CastingAluminum die-castings, unfinished, manufacturing744
- Century Aluminum SebreePrimary smelting of aluminum620
- Deaconess Henderson HospitalGeneral hospital504FTE
- Brenntag Mid-SouthIndustrial chemicals merchant wholesalers370
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters366
- Dana Inc (Henderson Facility)Automotive parts manufacturer309
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 56 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,802 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Henderson 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 Henderson County and the Evansville, IN-KY metro.
Reed home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Reed$133,944
- 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 Reed address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Reed — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.