Wheelwright, Kentucky.
Typical home $46,763 (-23.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$97 (+66%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $14,659 -24%
- $61,422$46,763 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $4,634 -9%
- $51,397$46,763 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.
- Wheelwright$245
- Kentucky$1,212
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Wheelwright, KY fell 23.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wheelwright, Floyd County, Kentucky
Wheelwright is a city of 509 people in Floyd County. Unemployment in Floyd County was 5.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Floyd County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wheelwright is a very small city in the hills of eastern Kentucky, in Floyd County, and with so few residents most people know one another. Homes here cost far less than in most of the country, and incomes across Floyd County sit below what is typical nationally. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in most places, and the commute to work tends to be a long one. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm but not extreme, with plenty of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, or in government. Across Floyd County, the largest workplaces include Floyd County Schools, Highlands Regional Medical Center and Big Sandy Community and Technical College. Unemployment across the county has eased a little over the past year, though the number of jobs there has slipped slightly.
Things to do. The surrounding country is good for time outdoors, though each of these places is a longer drive away. Russell Fork is a river, and Breaks Interstate Park is a protected area, both well suited to a day among the hills. For something indoors, the David A. Zegeer Coal-Railroad Museum is also a longer drive away and speaks to the region's mining and railroad past.
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- 9%of adults have a degree
- 36 mintypical commute
What people in Floyd County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Floyd County had 11,099 jobs in 2025, 0.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 64°. About 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Whitesburg 2SE weather station, 17 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Floyd County
- Floyd County SchoolsSchool district912FTE
- Highlands Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital431FTE
- Asplundh Tree Expert 'Tree and brush trimming, overhead utility line334
- Big Sandy Community and Technical CollegeTwo-year college331
- K VA T Food StoresSupermarket145
- American Medical Response135
- Mcdowell ARHCritical access hospital131FTE
- WalmartDiscount department stores124
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 22 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,228 people in all across the county; Wheelwright has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Wheelwright’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 Floyd County.
Wheelwright home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wheelwright$46,763
- 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 Wheelwright address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wheelwright — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Wheelwright
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 41669 | Wheelwright | 1,036 | — | $43,208 |
| 41606 | Bevinsville | 128 | — | $60,275 |