Big Clifty, KY population, income and ZIP codes

Big Clifty CDP is a very small community in Kentucky, with 302 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #419 of 554 ranked by population — larger than 24% of them. The median age here is 27 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in Big Clifty CDP earn a median of not published a year. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 32.8% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in Big Clifty CDP is valued at $103,600, 65.9% below the national figure and 34% below the $157,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs $776 a month, 44.8% below the national figure, or roughly $9,312 across a full year. 70.4% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

A median age of 27 means a large student or early-career population; income medians in places like this understate household resources, since many residents are supported from outside the address. With 302 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Big Clifty CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld household income for Big Clifty CDP because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.