Rush, Kentucky.
Typical home $142,406 (-10.0% in a year). Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$312 (+72%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $15,800 -10%
- $158,206$142,406 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $17,660 -11%
- $160,066$142,406 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.
- Rush$747
- Kentucky$1,212
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Rush, KY fell 10.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Rush, Boyd County, Kentucky
The Census does not count Rush on its own, so the figures here are Boyd County's. Half the county's households earn more than $61,118 a year and half less; 17% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 70% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 30% are rented. Unemployment in Boyd County was 4.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Boyd 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rush is a small community in Boyd County, in the hills of northeastern Kentucky. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes are modest, with a sizeable share of residents living below the poverty line. Winters are colder than in most of the country, summers are warm, and snow and rain both arrive in good measure.
Work. Across Boyd County, many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Jobs grew over the past year, and unemployment is lower than it was a year earlier. Most people drive to work, and few work from home.
Things to do. The Big Sandy River, the best known of the rivers nearby, is a longer drive away and is a good place for time by the water. Carter Caves State Resort Park, a protected area, is also a longer drive away. The Huntington Museum of Art, a museum, is another longer drive for those who enjoy art.
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- 19,309households
- 42.3median age
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Boyd County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Boyd County had 26,451 jobs in 2025, 1.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 63°. About 18 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Grayson East weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Boyd County
- Kings Daughters Medical CenterGeneral hospital3,958FTE
- Boyd County SchoolsSchool district644FTE
- Marathon Petroleum Logistics ServicesInland water freight transportation548
- Ashland Independent SchoolsSchool district543FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters400
- City of AshlandCity and town managers' offices303
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters289
- Ashland Community and Technical CollegeTwo-year college236
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 51 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 8,752 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
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Boyd 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 Boyd County and the Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH metro.
Rush home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rush$142,406
- 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.
- Rush6
Zip codes with a Rush address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rush — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.