Trenton, Kentucky.
Typical home $287,986 (-1.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$895 (+145%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,117 -1%
- $292,103$287,986 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $75,741 +36%
- $212,245$287,986 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.
- Trenton$1,512
- 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 Trenton, KY fell 1.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Trenton, Todd County, Kentucky
Trenton is a city of 326 people in Todd County. 83% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 17% are rented. Unemployment in Todd County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 4.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Todd County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Trenton is a very small city in Todd County, Kentucky, where nearly everyone who lives in town owns their home. Poverty is lower than it is in many places, and typical home values sit well within reach of a modest income. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn hot by July, with plenty of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, farming and retail also employing many. Across Todd County, some of the largest workplaces are Todd County Schools, Elkton Nursing and Rehabilitation, and Cal-Maine Foods. The commute is a fairly typical one, and few people work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away is the Jefferson Davis State Historic Site, a protected area, along with the Robert Penn Warren Museum and the Green River Female Academy museum. A longer drive reaches Dunbar Cave State Park, another protected area, for time outdoors.
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- 6%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Todd County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Todd County had 2,941 jobs in 2025, 4.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 69°. About 52 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Elkton weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Todd County
- Todd County SchoolsSchool district317FTE
- Todd County CourthouseCity or county courts89
- Elkton Nursing and RehabilitationSkilled nursing facilities79
- DDS Cisaplast USADoors, unframed glass, made from purchased glass53
- Cal-Maine FoodsChicken egg production50
- Koppers GuthrieCrossties, treating49
- Jeff Lear TruckingGravel hauling, local45
- Todd County JailJails36
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 486 people in all across the county; Trenton has none of its own. 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Trenton’s census tracts, 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 Todd County.
Trenton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Trenton$287,986
- 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 Trenton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Trenton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.