Robards, Kentucky.
Typical home $230,995 (+0.1% in a year). Evansville, IN-KY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$644 (+113%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $152 +0%
- $230,843$230,995 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $41,493 +22%
- $189,502$230,995 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.
- Robards$1,212
- 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 Robards, KY rose 0.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Robards, Henderson County, Kentucky
Robards is a city of 449 people in Henderson County. 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Robards is a very small city in Henderson County, Kentucky, where the typical resident is older than in most American places. Homes here are valued somewhat below what many buyers would find in larger metro areas, and only a small share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers turn properly hot, with a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades close behind. Across Henderson County, some of the largest workplaces are Tyson Chicken, Henderson County Schools and Deaconess Henderson Hospital. The commute is a little longer than a short hop across town, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. John James Audubon State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, a good choice for time outdoors. Also a longer drive away, Mesker Park Zoo and Botanic Garden is a zoo with gardens, and USS LST-325 is a museum. The Wabash River, another longer drive off, suits anyone who likes to spend time near the water.
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- 13%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 3%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 42° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 68°. About 12 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Henderson Ssw weather station, 8 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 across the county; Robards has none of its own. 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 windVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Robards’ 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 Henderson County and the Evansville, IN-KY metro.
Robards home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Robards$230,995
- 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.
- Robards6
Zip codes with a Robards address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Robards — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.