
Kentucky · FIPS 21099
Hart ZIP codes — Hart County, Kentucky
Quick answer
Hart County is home to 19,470 residents with a median household income of $49,653 and a median home value of $124,600. 73.7% of households own their home and 21.2% of residents live below the poverty line. Looking for a Hart ZIP code? 8 ZIP code areas fall inside Hart County, Kentucky, listed in full below.
- Population
- 19,470Hart County residents
- Median household income
- $49,653Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
- Median home value
- $124,600Owner-occupied units
- Median gross rent
- $692Rent plus utilities, monthly
- Median age
- 40.6 yrsAll residents
- Homeownership rate
- 73.7%Owner-occupied households
Hart County, KY in context
How this area compares with national benchmarks.
Hart County is a mid-size town in Kentucky, with 19,470 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates. The median age here is 40.6 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 Hart County earn a median of $49,653 a year, 36.8% below the national figure of $78,538. 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 21.2% 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 Hart County is valued at $124,600, 58.9% below the national figure, while median gross rent runs $692 a month, 50.8% below the national figure, or roughly $8,304 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 16.7% 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 2.5×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 73.7% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.
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 Hart County
ZIP code tabulation areas whose land area falls mostly in Hart 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 Hart County?
- Hart County has 19,470 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates.
- What is the median household income in Hart County?
- Median household income in Hart County is $49,653 a year, 36.8% below the national figure of $78,538.
- How much does it cost to rent or buy in Hart County?
- Median gross rent is $692 a month and the median home value is $124,600, so rent absorbs about 16.7% of median household income.
- Is Hart County affordable compared with the rest of the US?
- Homes cost about 2.5× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Hart County is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 16.7% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
- How current is this Hart 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.