Rochester, Kentucky.
Typical home $143,557 (-6.9% in a year). Bowling Green, KY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$342 (+83%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $10,714 -7%
- $154,271$143,557 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $13,394 +10%
- $130,164$143,557 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.
- Rochester$753
- Kentucky$1,212
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 35 years.
Typical home values in Rochester, KY fell 6.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Rochester, Butler County, Kentucky
Rochester is a city of 114 people in Butler County. Unemployment in Butler County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Butler County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rochester is a small city in Butler County, Kentucky, where the population is modest enough that most people know one another. The town sits within a rural county and keeps the quiet character of its surroundings.
Work. Residents work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, and in local shops. The typical trip to work is a drive rather than a walk for most people.
Things to do. Indian Knoll, an archaeological site, is a short drive away and offers a look at the region's long history. Lake Malone State Park, a protected area, and the Historic Railpark and Train Museum are a longer drive away and suit a day out.
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- 33 mintypical commute
What people in Butler County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Butler County had 2,940 jobs in 2025, 0.4% 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 89° and lows near 65°. About 4 inches of snow and 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Rochester Ferry weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Butler County
- MascoSupply line assemblies, plumbing, manufacturing334
- Butler County SchoolsSchool district310FTE
- Real Alloy Recycling, Inc. MorgantownAluminum alloys made from scrap or dross172
- Signature HealthcareSkilled nursing facilities133
- Corvac CompositesSeptic tanks, plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing92
- Corvac CompositesBadges, plastics, manufacturing80
- Aerospace Composites SolutionsAircraft auxiliary parts manufacturing70
- Gracious Living KentuckyBuilding panels, corrugated and flat, plastics, manufacturing41
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 962 people in all across the county; Rochester has none of its own. School districts come 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
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Rochester’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Butler County and the Bowling Green, KY metro.
Rochester home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rochester$143,557
- 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 Rochester address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rochester — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.