Strunk, Kentucky.
Typical home $105,971 (-8.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$316 (+131%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $9,749 -8%
- $115,720$105,971 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $17,646 +20%
- $88,324$105,971 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.
- Strunk$556
- Kentucky$1,212
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Strunk, KY fell 8.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Strunk, McCreary County, Kentucky
The Census does not count Strunk on its own, so the figures here are McCreary County's. Half the county's households earn more than $33,750 a year and half less; 39% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 74% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in McCreary County was 5.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in McCreary County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Strunk is a small community in McCreary County, in the hills of southeastern Kentucky. Winters are cold and summers are warm, with a good deal of rain falling through the year. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and home values are lower than across most of the country.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops, or in government jobs. Unemployment across McCreary County has eased somewhat over the past year, though the number of jobs has slipped a little recently. Relatively few adults hold a four-year degree, and few people work from home, so most people travel to a job outside the house.
Things to do. Cumberland Falls is the best known place on the list and is a longer drive away. The McCreary County Museum is a short drive away and is a good place to learn about the county's history. The Big South Fork Scenic Railway, a museum also a short drive away, is another option for an easy day out.
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- 5,861households
- 39.0median age
- 8%of adults have a degree
- 39%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in McCreary County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. McCreary County had 2,825 jobs in 2025, 1.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 45° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 63°. About 56 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Stearns 2S weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in McCreary County
- McCreary County SchoolsSchool district474FTE
- Outdoor VentureAwnings and canopies, outdoor, made from purchased fabrics170
- Bureau of Prisons/federal Prison SystemFederal government · Department of Justice156
- Kroger Louisville KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores88
- Outdoor VentureAwnings and canopies, outdoor, made from purchased fabrics80
- Fibrotex USAApparel findings and trimmings cut and sewn from purchased fabric62
- Signature HealthcareSkilled nursing facilities55
- Outdoor VentureAwnings and canopies, outdoor, made from purchased fabrics50
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 609 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across McCreary County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 McCreary County.
Strunk home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Strunk$105,971
- 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.
- Strunk7
Zip codes with a Strunk address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Strunk — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.