Stamping Ground, Kentucky.
Typical home $335,721 (+0.4% in a year). Lexington-Fayette, KY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$908 (+106%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,236 +0%
- $334,486$335,721 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $53,341 +19%
- $282,380$335,721 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.
- Stamping Ground$1,762
- Kentucky$1,212
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Stamping Ground, KY rose 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Stamping Ground, Scott County, Kentucky
Stamping Ground is a city of 780 people in Scott County. Half its households earn more than $62,500 a year and half less, against $85,158 across Scott County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Scott County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Scott 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Stamping Ground is a very small town in Scott County, Kentucky, home to far fewer people than most towns across the county. Household incomes in town run below the county's, and typical home values sit well above what the income level alone might suggest. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and nights that fall well below freezing, while July brings warm days, and rain and melted snow add up to a fairly wet year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in professional and business services. Across Scott County, the biggest workplaces include Toyota Motor Mfg Kentucky, Scott County Schools and Adient. Few people work from home, and the typical commute is a moderate one, which fits a town where many drive to jobs elsewhere in the county. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than is common nationally.
Things to do. Close by, Yuko-En on the Elkhorn is a garden a short drive away, and Royal Spring Park, listed as a museum, is also a short drive. For a longer outing, the Kentucky Horse Park, a protected area, is a longer drive away, as is Kroger Field, a stadium where games are played.
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- 364households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What people in Scott County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Scott County had 31,432 jobs in 2025, 0.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 41° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 66°. About 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Versailles Nnw weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Scott County
- Toyota Motor Mfg KentuckyVehicle assembly10,569
- Scott County SchoolsSchool district1,407FTE
- AdientMotor vehicle seats manufacturing800
- Georgetown Community HospitalGeneral hospital456FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters398
- VASCOR Ltd (2)Logistics management consulting services310
- Toyota Tsusho AmericaJob stampings, automotive, metal, manufacturing307
- Kroger Louisville KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores292
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 57 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 16,840 people in all across the county; Stamping Ground has none of its own. 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
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Stamping Ground’s census tracts, 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 Scott County and the Lexington-Fayette, KY metro.
Stamping Ground home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Stamping Ground$335,721
- 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.
- Stamping Ground14
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Stamping Ground5
Zip codes with a Stamping Ground address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Stamping Ground — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.