Symsonia, Kentucky.
Typical home $187,159 (+0.6% in a year). Mayfield, KY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$590 (+150%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,082 +1%
- $186,077$187,159 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $52,059 +39%
- $135,100$187,159 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.
- Symsonia$982
- Kentucky$1,212
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Symsonia, KY rose 0.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Symsonia, Graves County, Kentucky
Symsonia, in Graves County, had 622 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Graves County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most people in Graves County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Symsonia is a small community in Graves County, in western Kentucky, with a population that is small even by the standards of a rural county. Homes here are valued below what is typical across the country, and household incomes in the county sit a little below the national middle. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn hot by August.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades also giving people a living. Across Graves County, the largest workplaces include Pilgrims, a chicken processing plant, Graves County Schools and Jackson Purchase Medical Center. Joblessness in the county is low and has barely changed from a year ago.
Things to do. The Clarks River National Wildlife Refuge and the Clarks River itself are a short drive away, a protected area and a river for anyone who likes time outdoors. A longer drive brings you to Kentucky Lake, a large reservoir, and to Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area, a protected area set between the lakes.
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What people in Graves County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Graves County had 11,949 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 46° and lows near 23°; warmest in August, with highs near 90° and lows near 63°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Benton weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Graves County
- PilgrimsChickens, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked1,138
- Graves County SchoolsSchool district625FTE
- Jackson Purchase Medical CenterGeneral hospital463FTE
- Mayfield Consumer ProductsCandles manufacturing350
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters340
- Mayfield Independent SchoolsSchool district316FTE
- Progress RailRailroad rolling stock manufacturing312
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter109
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 36 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,049 people in all across the county; Symsonia 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- EarthquakesVery high
- LightningVery high
- Winter weatherVery 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 Symsonia’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 Graves County and the Mayfield, KY metro.
Symsonia home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Symsonia$187,159
- 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.
- Symsonia12
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Symsonia5
Zip codes with a Symsonia address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Symsonia — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.