Sulphur, Kentucky.
Typical home $266,596 (+8.0% in a year). Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$832 (+147%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $19,716 +8%
- $246,881$266,596 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $62,633 +31%
- $203,963$266,596 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.
- Sulphur$1,399
- 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 Sulphur, KY rose 8.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sulphur, Henry County, Kentucky
The Census does not count Sulphur on its own, so the figures here are Henry County's. Half the county's households earn more than $63,347 a year and half less; 16% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 76% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. Unemployment in Henry County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 5.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Henry 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sulphur is a town in Henry County, Kentucky, and across the county most homes are lived in by their owners. Across Henry County, the typical resident is middle-aged, and a share of households live below the poverty line. The town's figures are drawn from the county as a whole.
Work. Across Henry County, jobs grew over the past year, and residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, manufacturing, retail shops, and professional and business services. Relatively few people work from home, so most daily work takes place outside the house. Unemployment has held close to steady over the past year.
Things to do. The Kentucky River is one of the best known rivers nearby, a longer drive away. Clifty Falls State Park, also a longer drive away, is a waterfall set in a protected area. Kentucky Speedway, a race track, is another option a longer drive away.
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- 6,147households
- 41.0median age
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in Henry County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Henry County had 3,044 jobs in 2025, 5.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 41° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 65°. About 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Crestwood 4NE weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Henry County
- Henry County SchoolsSchool district332FTE
- Hussey CopperCopper and copper-based shapes made from purchased metal or scrap175
- Eminence Independent SchoolsSchool district132FTE
- New Castle Nursing and RehabSkilled nursing facilities71
- Hussey Copper - FabCopper and copper-based shapes made from purchased metal or scrap60
- Eminence SpeakerLoudspeakers manufacturing58
- Clean Harbors48
- Kentucky State PolicePolicing41
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 535 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 windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Henry 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 Henry County and the Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN metro.
Sulphur home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sulphur$266,596
- 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 Sulphur address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sulphur — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.