Tutor Key, Kentucky.
Typical home $131,349 (-6.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$381 (+123%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $8,474 -6%
- $139,823$131,349 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $25,091 +24%
- $106,258$131,349 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.
- Tutor Key$689
- Kentucky$1,212
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Tutor Key, KY fell 6.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Tutor Key, Johnson County, Kentucky
The Census does not count Tutor Key on its own, so the figures here are Johnson County's. Half the county's households earn more than $44,904 a year and half less; 23% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 68% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 32% are rented. Unemployment in Johnson County was 5.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Johnson County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Tutor Key is a small town in Johnson County, in the hills of eastern Kentucky. Winters are cold, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year. Across Johnson County, most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values are modest by national standards.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in government and in professional and business services. Unemployment has eased over the past year, though the number of jobs has edged down slightly. Relatively few adults hold a university degree, few people work from home, and most residents travel out to their workplaces.
Things to do. Paintsville Lake State Park is a protected area a short drive away, with the Paintsville Lake reservoir nearby. Mountain Homeplace and the Coal Miners' Museum are both museums a short drive away. Each makes a good outing for a day.
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- 9,040households
- 42.0median age
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 23%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What people in Johnson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Johnson County had 5,322 jobs in 2025, 0.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 65°. About 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Paintsville 1E weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Johnson County
- Johnson County SchoolsSchool district545FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters382
- Paintsville ARH HospitalGeneral hospital179FTE
- Mountain Manor of PaintsvilleSkilled nursing facilities140
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter125
- Paintsville Independent SchoolsSchool district111FTE
- K VA T Food StoresSupermarket96
- Carl D. Perkins Vocational Rehabilitation CenterExecutive offices, federal, state, and local86
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,175 people in all. 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
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Johnson County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Johnson County.
Tutor Key home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Tutor Key$131,349
- 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 Tutor Key address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Tutor Key — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.