Westview, Kentucky.
Typical home $167,228 (-1.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$494 (+129%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,177 -2%
- $170,405$167,228 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $32,135 +24%
- $135,093$167,228 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.
- Westview$878
- 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 Westview, KY fell 1.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Westview, Breckinridge County, Kentucky
The Census does not count Westview on its own, so the figures here are Breckinridge County's. Half the county's households earn more than $55,843 a year and half less; 21% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 81% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 19% are rented. Unemployment in Breckinridge County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Breckinridge County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Westview is a small community in Breckinridge County, Kentucky, where neighbors often know one another. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and many households have lived in the area for years. Winters are cold and some snow falls, while summers are warm, and a good deal of rain comes through the year.
Work. Many residents work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, or in the building trades. Unemployment across the county has eased over the past year, and jobs have grown slightly. Relatively few adults hold a four-year college degree, and most people drive to work, with commutes tending to be longer than the national norm.
Things to do. Rough River Lake is a lake a short drive away, and Rough River Dam State Resort Park, a protected area, is also close by. For a longer drive, the General George Patton Museum of Leadership offers a museum visit.
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- 8,069households
- 42.5median age
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 21%below the poverty line
- 33 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Breckinridge County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Breckinridge County had 3,769 jobs in 2025, 1.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 24°; warmest in August, with highs near 85° and lows near 65°. About 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mcdaniels weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Breckinridge County
- Breckinridge County SchoolsSchool district423FTE
- Breckinridge HealthCritical access hospital348FTE
- WalmartDiscount department stores86
- Hardinsburg Nursing and Rehabilitation CenterSkilled nursing facilities63
- Aulbach Land USAAgriculture production or harvesting crews47
- Cloverport Independent SchoolsSchool district47FTE
- Breckinridge Tobacco CompanyTobacco farming, field and seed production38
- Joe Bennett Backhoe, Plumbing & RentalsEquipment rental, construction, with operator30
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 331 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
- HailRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Breckinridge 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 Breckinridge County.
Westview home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Westview$167,228
- 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.
- Westview12
Zip codes with a Westview address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Westview — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.