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ZIP code 42338

Population, income, housing costs and the sales tax rate charged on purchases inside ZIP 42338 — Census 2019-2023 ACS 5-year, no modelled estimates.
Population
11

ZCTA residents

Median income
—

Household, past 12 months

Median home
—

Owner-occupied value

Sales tax
6%

Kentucky state rate

Quick answer

ZIP 42338 sits in Ohio County, Kentucky and is home to 11 people. Median household income is —, the median home is worth — and median gross rent is —. 100% of households own their home, and purchases are taxed at 6% (Kentucky state rate).

County
Ohio County

FIPS 21183

State
Kentucky (KY)

779 ZIPs covered

Area codes
Not published

No NANPA match for this ZIP

Metro area
Outside covered metros

Rate jurisdiction used for tax

The numbers for 42338

American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates for this ZCTA.

Population
11ZIP 42338 residents
Median household income
—Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value
—Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent
—Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age
—All residents
Homeownership rate
100%Owner-occupied households

ZIP 42338 in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

ZIP 42338 is a very small community in Ohio County, Kentucky, with 11 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #760 of 779 ranked by population — larger than 2% of them. The median age here is not published. 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 ZIP 42338 earn a median of not published a year. 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 0% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in ZIP 42338 is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs not published a month. 100% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

With 11 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare ZIP 42338 against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld household income, home value, gross rent for ZIP 42338 because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.

Reading ZIP 42338 in context

How 42338 sits inside Ohio County and Kentucky.

ZIP 42338 is tabulated inside Ohio County, Kentucky, one of 12 ZIP areas the Census publishes for that county and 779 across Kentucky. This is one of the smallest tabulated ZIP areas in the state, the kind of rural route where a single subdivision or farm cluster accounts for most addresses. County assignment on this page follows the largest share of the ZIP's land area, which matters where a delivery route crosses a county line: mail addressed to 42338 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 42338 reports a median household income of not published. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of not published. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at not published a month, which is why it reads higher than the advertised rent on a listing for the same unit.

Kentucky charges 6% statewide, and no local sales tax is layered on top, so the state rate is the full amount collected in 42338.

Everything above comes from the Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates for this ZIP Code Tabulation Area, with sales tax rates traced to the state revenue agency. Five-year estimates pool sixty months of responses, so they are stable enough to compare 42338 with its neighbours but always trail the current year, and any value the Census suppressed for sample size is shown as unpublished rather than filled in with a model.

Sales tax in 42338

What a purchase inside this ZIP costs at checkout.

Rate applied
6%State base rate only
Tax on $100
$6Rounded to the dollar
Tax on $1,000
$60Before any exemptions

Kentucky levies 6% statewide with no local add-ons. Check the county page for the local component before you quote a price.

Affordability in this ZIP

Derived from the Census medians above — indicative, not an offer.

Rent burden
—Median rent ÷ median income
Price-to-income
—Home value ÷ household income
Est. mortgage
—20% down, 30-yr at 6.75%
Poverty rate
0%Residents below poverty line

A rent burden above 30% is the federal threshold for cost-burdened households, and a price-to-income multiple above 4× is generally considered a stretched housing market. The mortgage figure is principal and interest only — taxes, insurance and HOA dues are extra.

How 42338 compares

ZIP 42338 against the median ZIP in Ohio County and across Kentucky.

MeasureZIP 42338County medianState medianvs state
Median household income—$51,430$53,906—
Median home value—$97,450$130,850—
Median gross rent—$755$791—
Population111,1061,457-99%

Medians are computed across the 12 ZIP areas in Ohio County and the 779 ZIP areas in Kentucky.

Statewide rank

Where this ZIP places among all 779 Kentucky ZIP areas.

Income

Not published

—
Home value

Not published

—
Population

larger than 2% of 779 state ZIPs

#760

Nearby ZIP codes

Other ZIP codes filed under Ohio County.

Adjacent ZIP Codes

Other ZIP codes in Ohio County, Kentucky.

ZIP 42338 questions

Common questions about this ZIP code.

Where is ZIP code 42338?
ZIP 42338 lies mostly in Ohio County, Kentucky. County assignment follows the largest share of land area, so a ZIP straddling a county line is filed under its dominant county.
What sales tax do I pay in 42338?
Kentucky charges 6% statewide.
Is 42338 expensive to live in?
Median rent runs — a month, and the median home is worth — — — against the typical Kentucky ZIP.
Is a ZCTA the same as a postal ZIP code?
Not exactly. The Census builds ZIP Code Tabulation Areas from the ZIP codes of addresses inside each census block, so a ZCTA can differ slightly from the USPS delivery route of the same number, and PO-box-only ZIPs have no ZCTA at all.

Related pages for this area.

Sources & transparency

Every figure on this page is a published estimate for ZIP Code Tabulation Area 42338, except the affordability ratios and mortgage estimate, which we derive from those medians and label as estimates.

Last reviewed December 2024. Figures are published for reference and can change; verify with the source agency before filing or contracting. How we build and check this data.