Wingo, Kentucky.
Typical home $159,902 (+1.4% in a year). Mayfield, KY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$511 (+155%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,179 +1%
- $157,723$159,902 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $52,415 +49%
- $107,487$159,902 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.
- Wingo$839
- Kentucky$1,212
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Wingo, KY rose 1.4% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Wingo, Graves County, Kentucky
Wingo is a city of 573 people in Graves County. Half its households earn more than $50,000 a year and half less, against $50,772 across Graves County; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Graves County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most people in Graves 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wingo is a small city in Graves County, in the far western part of Kentucky. It is a young town, with a median age well below that of many places where older homeowners settle, and household incomes close to the county's. Homes here cost less than in much of the country, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many parts of the country.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, manufacturing, shops, and the building trades. Across Graves County, the largest workplaces include Pilgrims, a poultry processing company, Graves County Schools, and Jackson Purchase Medical Center. Very few people work from home, and unemployment across the county is low and has held steady over the past year.
Things to do. Winters are cold, with only a little snow, and summers are hot, with a good deal of rain across the year. For a day out, Columbus-Belmont State Park is a museum and park a longer drive away, as is Wickliffe Mounds, an archaeological site. Discovery Park of America, also a longer drive away, is one of the better known museums in the region.
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- 21%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 4%work from home
What people in Graves County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Graves County had 11,949 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 46° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 70°. About 3 inches of snow and 55 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Martin U Of T Branch East weather station, 22 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Graves County
- PilgrimsChickens, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked1,138
- Graves County SchoolsSchool district625FTE
- Jackson Purchase Medical CenterGeneral hospital463FTE
- Mayfield Consumer ProductsCandles manufacturing350
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters340
- Mayfield Independent SchoolsSchool district316FTE
- Progress RailRailroad rolling stock manufacturing312
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter109
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 36 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,049 people in all across the county; Wingo 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
- Strong windVery high
- EarthquakesVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Wingo’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 Graves County and the Mayfield, KY metro.
Wingo home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wingo$159,902
- 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.
- Wingo8
Zip codes with a Wingo address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wingo — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.