Kentucky · FIPS 21119
Knott ZIP codes — Knott County, Kentucky
Quick answer
Knott County is home to 14,046 residents with a median household income of $37,736 and a median home value of $74,600. 70.8% of households own their home and 25.9% of residents live below the poverty line. Looking for a Knott ZIP code? 21 ZIP code areas fall inside Knott County, Kentucky, listed in full below.
- Population
- 14,046Knott County residents
- Median household income
- $37,736Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
- Median home value
- $74,600Owner-occupied units
- Median gross rent
- $731Rent plus utilities, monthly
- Median age
- 44.4 yrsAll residents
- Homeownership rate
- 70.8%Owner-occupied households
Knott County, KY in context
How this area compares with national benchmarks.
Knott County is a mid-size town in Kentucky, with 14,046 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates. The median age here is 44.4 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 Knott County earn a median of $37,736 a year, 52% below the national figure of $78,538. 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 25.9% 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 Knott County is valued at $74,600, 75.4% below the national figure, while median gross rent runs $731 a month, 48% below the national figure, or roughly $8,772 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 23.2% 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 2×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so purchase prices are unusually low against local pay, the pattern in places where supply is plentiful and wage growth has been flat. 70.8% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. 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.
ZIP codes in Knott County
ZIP code tabulation areas whose land area falls mostly in Knott County.
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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 Knott County?
- Knott County has 14,046 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates.
- What is the median household income in Knott County?
- Median household income in Knott County is $37,736 a year, 52% below the national figure of $78,538.
- How much does it cost to rent or buy in Knott County?
- Median gross rent is $731 a month and the median home value is $74,600, so rent absorbs about 23.2% of median household income.
- Is Knott County affordable compared with the rest of the US?
- Homes cost about 2× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Knott County is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 23.2% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
- How current is this Knott 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.