Salt Lick, Kentucky.
Typical home $172,113 (+4.0% in a year). Mount Sterling, KY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$569 (+170%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,601 +4%
- $165,512$172,113 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $48,830 +40%
- $123,283$172,113 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.
- Salt Lick$903
- 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 Salt Lick, KY rose 4.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Salt Lick, Bath County, Kentucky
Salt Lick is a city of 247 people in Bath County. Unemployment in Bath County was 4.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Bath County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Salt Lick is a very small city in Bath County, Kentucky, where neighbors tend to know one another. Homes here cost less than in much of the country, and incomes across the county run below the national picture. Few adults have a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and nights that dip below freezing, and a modest amount of snow falls most years. Summers are warm, and rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Many residents work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in the building trades. Across Bath County, some of the largest workplaces are Bath County Schools, CTI Foods, and Bluegrass Health Partners. Unemployment in the county is a little lower than a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Olympia State Forest, a protected area, and Cave Run Lake, a reservoir, are both a short drive away and suit a day of walking or time on the water. A longer drive brings you to the Kentucky Folk Art Center, a museum, and to Natural Bridge State Resort Park, another protected area. Red River Gorge, also a longer drive away, is one of the best-known stretches of wild country in the region.
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- 12%of adults have a degree
What people in Bath County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bath County had 1,937 jobs in 2025, 1.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 41° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 64°. About 12 inches of snow and 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cave Run Lake weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bath County
- Bath County SchoolsSchool district295FTE
- CTI FoodsMeats, fresh or chilled, frozen, made from purchased carcasses185
- SIMOS Insourcing SolutionsStaffing137
- Bluegrass Health PartnersSkilled nursing facilities133
- OwingsvilleMail and parcel delivery21
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 476 people in all across the county; Salt Lick 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
- LightningVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Salt Lick’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 Bath County and the Mount Sterling, KY metro.
Salt Lick home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Salt Lick$172,113
- 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.
- Salt Lick11
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Salt Lick address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Salt Lick — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.