Stambaugh, Kentucky.
Typical home $148,361 (-3.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$385 (+98%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,871 -3%
- $153,233$148,361 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $14,422 +11%
- $133,939$148,361 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.
- Stambaugh$779
- Kentucky$1,212
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 34 years.
Typical home values in Stambaugh, KY fell 3.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Stambaugh, Lawrence County, Kentucky
The Census does not count Stambaugh on its own, so the figures here are Lawrence County's. Half the county's households earn more than $46,772 a year and half less; 22% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 78% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in Lawrence County was 6.3% in August 2026, and the county had 11.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lawrence 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Stambaugh is a small town in Lawrence County, in the hills of eastern Kentucky. Most homes are lived in by the people who own them, and renting is less common here than in many parts of the country. Household incomes sit below the typical level for the country, and poverty is more common than across the nation.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in factories, or for the government. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across the country, and few people work from home, so most commute out to their jobs. Unemployment has come down over the past year, but fewer jobs were available in the county than the year before.
Things to do. Paintsville Lake State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away and offers a quiet place to spend a day by the water. The Country Music Highway Museum, also a short drive off, tells the story of the music that grew up along this road. Paintsville Lake, a reservoir a short drive away, is a good spot for those who like being out on the water.
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- 6,342households
- 42.1median age
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 22%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Lawrence County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lawrence County had 3,759 jobs in 2025, 11.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 62°. About 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Charley Southwest weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lawrence County
- Lawrence County SchoolsSchool district383FTE
- ARCResidential mental health and substance abuse facilities382
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters216
- Three Rivers Medical CenterGeneral hospital173FTE
- K VA T Food StoresSupermarket83
- Lawrence County Schools69
- The Millard AcademyElementary and secondary schools66
- PRHOffices of physicians62
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,000 people in all. 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
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Lawrence 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 Lawrence County.
Stambaugh home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Stambaugh$148,361
- 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 Stambaugh address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Stambaugh — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.