Worthington, Kentucky.
Typical home $138,632 (-1.6% in a year). Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$364 (+100%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,253 -2%
- $140,885$138,632 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $26,975 +24%
- $111,656$138,632 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.
- Worthington$728
- 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 Worthington, KY fell 1.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Worthington, Greenup County, Kentucky
Worthington is a city of 1,501 people in Greenup County. Half its households earn more than $65,609 a year and half less, against $60,751 across Greenup County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Greenup County was 5.4% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most people in Greenup 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Worthington is a small city in Greenup County, Kentucky, where household incomes run somewhat above the county's and homes are valued at a fairly modest level. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree here than in many places, and the commute to work is typical for a small Kentucky town, with almost everyone making the trip rather than working from home. Winters are cold, with January the chilliest month, summers turn warm by July, and the year brings plenty of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing and in the building trades. Across Greenup County, some of the largest workplaces are Greenup County Schools, Graf Brothers Flooring and Cintas. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than it was a year ago, and the number of jobs has held about steady.
Things to do. Greenbo Lake and Greenbo Lake State Resort Park are both a short drive away, offering a reservoir and a state park for time on the water and outdoors. The Little Sandy River is also a short drive away. For a longer outing, Carter Caves State Resort Park and the Huntington Museum of Art are a longer drive away.
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- 796households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Greenup County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Greenup County had 7,006 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 65°. About 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ashland weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Greenup County
- Greenup County SchoolsSchool district458FTE
- Russell Independent SchoolsSchool district318FTE
- Graf Brothers FlooringWood flooring manufacturing315
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter157
- CintasGeneral warehousing & storage152
- Raceland-Worthington Independent SchoolsSchool district151FTE
- Kroger Mid-Atlantic KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores113
- Superior Environmental Solutions - GreenupEnvironmental remediation services110
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 14 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,250 people in all across the county; Worthington has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (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
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Worthington’s census tracts, 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 Greenup County and the Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH metro.
Worthington home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Worthington$138,632
- 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.
- Worthington8
Zip codes with a Worthington address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Worthington — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.