Fort Thomas, KY population, income and ZIP codes

Fort Thomas city is a mid-size town in Kentucky, with 17,242 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #27 of 554 ranked by population — larger than 95% of them. The median age here is 37.9 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in Fort Thomas city earn a median of $100,819 a year, 28.4% above the national figure of $78,538 and 82% above the $55,469 median for the 246 Kentucky cities we cover. 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 4.9% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Fort Thomas city is valued at $301,400, essentially level with the national figure and 92% above the $157,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,095 a month, 22.1% below the national figure, or roughly $13,140 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 13% 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 3×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 70.2% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. 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.