Stanton, Kentucky.
Typical home $163,797 (-5.8% in a year). Mount Sterling, KY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$498 (+138%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $10,040 -6%
- $173,837$163,797 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $37,996 +30%
- $125,801$163,797 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.
- Stanton$860
- Kentucky$1,212
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Stanton, KY fell 5.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Stanton, Powell County, Kentucky
Stanton is a city of 3,251 people in Powell County. Unemployment in Powell County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in shops, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Stanton is a small city in Powell County, Kentucky, with a median age a little above the middle of the country's range and a population that has stayed modest in size. Incomes in the county run below what is typical across the country, and a good number of residents live below the poverty line. Few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a modest amount of snow, while July brings warm days, and rain and melted snow are fairly generous over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in shops, in professional and business services, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in manufacturing. Among the largest workplaces in Stanton are Powell County Schools, Kroger and UPS. Unemployment in the county is close to where it was a year ago, and the county has lost a small share of its jobs over the past year. Most people travel a fair way to work, and very few work from home.
Things to do. The Kentucky Reptile Zoo is a short drive away and is the closest outing on the list. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Red River Gorge, a protected area, and to Natural Bridge State Resort Park, another protected area. Cave Run Lake, a reservoir, is also a longer drive away.
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- 1,223households
- 8%of adults have a degree
- 26%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Powell County had 3,003 jobs in 2025, 0.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 64°. About 12 inches of snow and 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Stanton 2W weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Stanton
- Powell County SchoolsSchool district332FTE
- Kroger Louisville KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores100
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services66
- Stantek Contract ManufacturingWire and cable insulating machinery manufacturing57
- Stanton Save-A-Lot21
- StantonMail and parcel delivery20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 264 people in all. 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
- Strong windVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Stanton’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Powell County and the Mount Sterling, KY metro.
Stanton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Stanton$163,797
- Kentucky$230,909
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Stanton listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Stanton21.26%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Stanton58
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Stanton12
Zip codes with a Stanton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Stanton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.