
Kentucky · FIPS 21097
Harrison ZIP codes — Harrison County, Kentucky
Quick answer
Harrison County is home to 18,971 residents with a median household income of $63,205 and a median home value of $188,900. 70.4% of households own their home and 16.4% of residents live below the poverty line. Looking for a Harrison ZIP code? 2 ZIP code areas fall inside Harrison County, Kentucky, listed in full below.
- Population
- 18,971Harrison County residents
- Median household income
- $63,205Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
- Median home value
- $188,900Owner-occupied units
- Median gross rent
- $755Rent plus utilities, monthly
- Median age
- 42.4 yrsAll residents
- Homeownership rate
- 70.4%Owner-occupied households
Harrison County, KY in context
How this area compares with national benchmarks.
Harrison County is a mid-size town in Kentucky, with 18,971 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates. The median age here is 42.4 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older 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 Harrison County earn a median of $63,205 a year, 19.5% below the national figure of $78,538. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 16.4% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.
The typical owner-occupied home in Harrison County is valued at $188,900, 37.7% below the national figure, while median gross rent runs $755 a month, 46.3% below the national figure, or roughly $9,060 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 14.3% 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 3×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 70.4% 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.
ZIP codes in Harrison County
ZIP code tabulation areas whose land area falls mostly in Harrison County.
How to read this page
What these estimates cover.
Figures are five-year rolling averages from the American Community Survey, not single-year counts, so they describe conditions across 2019-2023 ACS 5-year rather than a single date. Median home value covers owner-occupied units as valued by their owners, and median gross rent includes utilities the renter pays. Small counties carry wide margins of error; treat single-dollar differences between neighbouring counties as noise.
Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year
Cities and towns in Kentucky
Largest Census places in Kentucky by population.
- Louisville/Jefferson County metro government (balance) 627,210
- Lexington-Fayette urban county 321,122
- Bowling Green city 73,638
- Owensboro city 60,112
- Covington city 40,902
- Georgetown city 38,206
- Richmond city 35,498
- Florence city 32,334
- Elizabethtown city 31,870
- Nicholasville city 31,625
- Hopkinsville city 31,011
- Independence city 29,024
Nearby counties
Other counties in Kentucky.
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about this area.
- What is the population of Harrison County?
- Harrison County has 18,971 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates.
- What is the median household income in Harrison County?
- Median household income in Harrison County is $63,205 a year, 19.5% below the national figure of $78,538.
- How much does it cost to rent or buy in Harrison County?
- Median gross rent is $755 a month and the median home value is $188,900, so rent absorbs about 14.3% of median household income.
- Is Harrison County affordable compared with the rest of the US?
- Homes cost about 3× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Harrison County is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 14.3% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
- How current is this Harrison County data?
- All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. 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.