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Stopover, Kentucky.

Typical home $57,719 (-10.4% in a year).

What it costs per month · Stopover $303/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$95 (+46%) since Jan 2020.

What the home itself did
1 year
Down $6,734 -10%
$64,454$57,719 since Sep 2025
5 years
Down $11,079 -16%
$68,798$57,719 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.

$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 Stopover $303 Kentucky $1,212 United States $1,922
$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • Stopover$303
  • Kentucky$1,212
  • United States$1,922

At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.

Typical home values in Stopover, KY fell 10.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.

Living in Stopover, Pike County, Kentucky

The Census does not count Stopover on its own, so the figures here are Pike County's. Half the county's households earn more than $44,312 a year and half less; 24% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 75% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in Pike County was 6.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Pike County work in schools and health care, then shops.

People 57,000 about, in Pike County: the Census does not count Stopover on its own
Household income $44,312 the median in Pike County, give or take $3,223
Unemployment 6.1% Pike County, August 2026; 6.1% a year before
Homes 75% lived in by their owners; 25% rented

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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Stopover sits in the hills of eastern Kentucky, in Pike County, where winters are cold and snowy and summers are warm. Plenty of rain falls over the year, and the county's homes are mostly lived in by their owners. Across Pike County, poverty is more widespread than across the country, and household incomes are lower than the national norm.

Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Jobs in the county fell slightly last year, and unemployment is about where it was a year earlier. Fewer adults hold a college degree than across the country, and most people drive to work, with few working from home.

Things to do. Devils Branch is a river in or beside town, so it is the easiest to reach on foot or by a short walk. Alum Creek, a river a short drive away, and Breaks Interstate Park, a protected area a longer drive off, offer more room to spend a day outdoors.

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  • 24,284households
  • 43.3median age
  • 18%of adults have a degree
  • 24%below the poverty line
  • 25 mintypical commute
  • 6%work from home

What people in Pike County work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care32%
  • Shops (retail)14%
  • Restaurants, hotels and entertainment7%
  • Professional and business services7%
  • Building trades6%
  • Transport, warehouses and utilities6%

Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pike County had 20,166 jobs in 2025, 1.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

Weather through the year

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 43° and 24°; warmest in July, 84° and 64° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 43° 24° F M A M J J 84° 64° A S O N D
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 43° and 24°; warmest in July, 84° and 64° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 43° 24° F M A M J J 84° 64° A S O N D

Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 64°. About 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Rd Bailey Lake weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Pike County

  1. Pikeville Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,832FTE
  2. Pike County SchoolsSchool district1,340FTE
  3. University of PikevilleUniversity or college440
  4. WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters438
  5. KYTC District 12321
  6. Kellogg CompanyBakery products, dry, manufacturing314
  7. WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters273
  8. TUG Valley ARHGeneral hospital272FTE

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 41 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,157 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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

  1. LandslidesRelatively high
  2. Inland floodingRelatively high
  3. WildfireRelatively moderate
  4. Winter weatherRelatively moderate
  5. Strong windRelatively moderate

FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Pike County, 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 Pike County.

Stopover home values

Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

$100,000 $200,000 $300,000 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 Stopover $57,719 Kentucky $230,909 United States $366,157
$100,000 $200,000 $300,000 2018 2022 2026
  • Stopover$57,719
  • 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.

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Zip codes with a Stopover address

A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Stopover — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.

Zip codes in Stopover