Waverly, Kentucky.
Typical home $167,737 (-0.6% in a year). Evansville, IN-KY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$442 (+101%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $944 -1%
- $168,681$167,737 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $24,570 +17%
- $143,167$167,737 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.
- Waverly$880
- Kentucky$1,212
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 22 years.
Typical home values in Waverly, KY fell 0.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Waverly, Henderson County, Kentucky
Waverly is a city of 311 people in Henderson County. 84% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in Henderson County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Henderson 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Waverly is a very small Kentucky city in Henderson County, with far fewer residents than most towns of any kind. Nearly all homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values sit well below what many older homeowners will be used to elsewhere. Winters are cold and snowy for the region, and summers are hot, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops and in the building trades. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and very few work from home. Across Henderson County, some of the biggest workplaces are Tyson Chicken, Henderson County Schools and Deaconess Henderson Hospital, and household incomes in the county are modest.
Things to do. Hovey Lake Fish and Wildlife Area is a protected area a short drive away, a good option for a quiet day outdoors. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to the Wabash River, to USS LST-325, a museum ship, and to Mesker Park Zoo and Botanic Garden. John James Audubon State Park is another protected area a longer drive away.
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- 9%of adults have a degree
- 3%work from home
What people in Henderson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Henderson County had 18,611 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 68°. About 12 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Henderson Ssw weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Henderson County
- Tyson ChickenPoultry processing1,274
- Henderson County SchoolsSchool district1,070FTE
- Gibbs Die CastingAluminum die-castings, unfinished, manufacturing744
- Century Aluminum SebreePrimary smelting of aluminum620
- Deaconess Henderson HospitalGeneral hospital504FTE
- Brenntag Mid-SouthIndustrial chemicals merchant wholesalers370
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters366
- Dana Inc (Henderson Facility)Automotive parts manufacturer309
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 56 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,802 people in all across the county; Waverly 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- Strong windVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Waverly’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 Henderson County and the Evansville, IN-KY metro.
Waverly home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Waverly$167,737
- 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 Waverly address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Waverly — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.