Russell, Kentucky.
Typical home $222,709 (+5.7% in a year). Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$661 (+130%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,036 +6%
- $210,673$222,709 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $63,061 +39%
- $159,648$222,709 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.
- Russell$1,169
- Kentucky$1,212
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Russell, KY rose 5.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Russell, Greenup County, Kentucky
Russell is a city of 3,744 people in Greenup County. Half its households earn more than $76,182 a year and half less, against $60,751 across Greenup County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 82% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. Unemployment in Greenup County was 5.4% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Russell is a small city in Greenup County, Kentucky, and its residents tend to be older than in much of the country. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run well above the county's, with relatively few people living below the poverty line. A four-year degree is held by a fair share of adults, and winters are cold while summers turn warm, with rain and melted snow spread through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and professional and business services also employing many. Across Greenup County, some of the largest workplaces are Greenup County Schools, Russell Independent Schools and Graf Brothers Flooring. Unemployment in the county is a little lower than a year ago, though the number of jobs has stayed about level, and the typical commute is a moderate one, with few people working from home.
Things to do. Greenbo Lake and Greenbo Lake State Resort Park, a reservoir and a protected area, are both a short drive away, as is the Little Sandy River. For a longer outing, Carter Caves State Resort Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and the Huntington Museum of Art is a museum, also a longer drive away.
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- 1,439households
- 36%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Greenup County had 7,006 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 65°. About 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ashland weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Greenup County
- Greenup County SchoolsSchool district458FTE
- Russell Independent SchoolsSchool district318FTE
- Graf Brothers FlooringWood flooring manufacturing315
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter157
- CintasGeneral warehousing & storage152
- Raceland-Worthington Independent SchoolsSchool district151FTE
- Kroger Mid-Atlantic KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores113
- Superior Environmental Solutions - GreenupEnvironmental remediation services110
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 14 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,250 people in all across the county; Russell has two 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
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Russell’s census tracts, 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 Greenup County and the Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH metro.
Russell home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Russell$222,709
- Kentucky$230,909
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Russell listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Russell22.78%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Russell18
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Russell address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Russell — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.