What is the population of Paintsville city?

Paintsville city has 4,256 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #100 of 554 in Kentucky.

What is the median household income in Paintsville city?

Median household income in Paintsville city is $26,713 a year, 66% below the national figure of $78,538.

How much does it cost to rent or buy in Paintsville city?

Median gross rent is $631 a month and the median home value is $110,800, so rent absorbs about 28.3% of median household income.

Is Paintsville city affordable compared with the rest of the US?

Homes cost about 4.1× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Paintsville city is less affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 28.3% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Paintsville, KY population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Paintsville, Kentucky (Paintsville, KY — Census place “Paintsville city”) is 4,256 residents, ranking #100 of 554 places in Kentucky. Median household income is $26,713, the median home is worth $110,800 and median gross rent runs $631 a month. Looking for the Paintsville Kentucky ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Paintsville, KY: 41240.

Population: 4,256Paintsville city residents
Median household income: $26,713Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $110,800Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $631Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 41.9 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 36.7%Owner-occupied households

Paintsville ZIP codes (Kentucky)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Paintsville.

The Paintsville KY ZIP code list below covers 1 ZIP code. Open any one for its population, income, housing and rent profile.

41240

What the numbers mean in Paintsville city

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Paintsville city median would spend about 28.3% of gross income on the median rent. The 30% mark is the federal threshold for cost burden, so anything above it signals a stretched rental market. The median home costs 4.1× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 34.7% of residents and 36.7% of households own their home.

Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year

Paintsville city, KY in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Paintsville city is a small town in Kentucky, with 4,256 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #100 of 554 ranked by population — larger than 82% of them. The median age here is 41.9 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older 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 Paintsville city earn a median of $26,713 a year, 66% below the national figure of $78,538 and 52% below 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 34.7% 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 Paintsville city is valued at $110,800, 63.5% below the national figure and 30% below the $157,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs $631 a month, 55.1% below the national figure, or roughly $7,572 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 28.3% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 4.1×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 36.7% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, a renter-majority market, so rent figures matter more here than the home-value line. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

All values below were released by the Census for this exact geography, with no gap-filling on our side. 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.

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Frequently asked questions

Common questions about this area.

What is the population of Paintsville city?: Paintsville city has 4,256 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #100 of 554 in Kentucky.
What is the median household income in Paintsville city?: Median household income in Paintsville city is $26,713 a year, 66% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Paintsville city?: Median gross rent is $631 a month and the median home value is $110,800, so rent absorbs about 28.3% of median household income.
Is Paintsville city affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 4.1× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Paintsville city is less affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 28.3% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Paintsville city data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. 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.