West Buechel, KY population, income and ZIP codes

West Buechel city is a small town in Kentucky, with 1,624 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #196 of 554 ranked by population — larger than 64% of them. The median age here is 31.6 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 West Buechel city earn a median of $47,066 a year, 40.1% below the national figure of $78,538 and 15% 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 16.5% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in West Buechel city is valued at $152,600, 49.7% below the national figure and 3% below the $157,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,148 a month, 18.3% below the national figure, or roughly $13,776 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 29.3% 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 3.2×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 15.2% 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.

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.