Buckner, KY population, income and ZIP codes

Buckner CDP is a small town in Kentucky, with 3,786 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #107 of 554 ranked by population — larger than 80% of them. The median age here is 35.5 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. 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 Buckner CDP earn a median of $149,700 a year, 90.6% above the national figure of $78,538 and 170% above the $55,469 median for the 246 Kentucky cities we cover. Median household income counts every pre-tax dollar arriving at an address — wages, self-employment, Social Security, pensions, interest and public assistance — for everyone living there, so multi-earner households pull the figure up even where individual pay is modest. Poverty reaches 0.3% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Buckner CDP is valued at $389,900, 28.5% above the national figure and 148% above the $157,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,536 a month, 9.2% above the national figure, or roughly $18,432 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 12.3% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2.6×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 94.4% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.