A typical Barbourville home is worth about $139,000
Down 1.7% in a year, 40% below the Kentucky typical home.
What kind of housing town is Barbourville?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
A two-bedroom rents for about $920
Renters already here pay a median of $702, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Clay County, KY): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
A typical home costs 6.3 years of income
More than across Kentucky (3.7 years). Try your own numbers below.
That’s $52K short of a typical Barbourville home.
A two-bedroom rents for about $920 a month here, $110 more than owning.
How Barbourville ranks on affordability →
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Barbourville’s typical property tax (0.72% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
Up 24.3% in five years
About the same pace as Kentucky (25.2%).
Show as a table
| January | Barbourville | Kentucky |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | $84,000 | $131,000 |
| 2018 | $83,000 | $138,000 |
| 2019 | $85,000 | $146,000 |
| 2020 | $91,000 | $155,000 |
| 2021 | $104,000 | $173,000 |
| 2022 | $114,000 | $191,000 |
| 2023 | $125,000 | $207,000 |
| 2024 | $128,000 | $216,000 |
| 2025 | $141,000 | $229,000 |
| 2026 | $135,000 | $233,000 |
| August 2026 | $139,000 | $233,000 |
A typical Barbourville home worth $82K in September 2016 is worth about $139K today.
Zillow Home Value Index: the typical value of all homes (middle third), smoothed and seasonally adjusted, through August 2026.
No new homes permitted in 2025
No permits for new homes were issued in Barbourville in 2025. The last year with any was 2009 (12 new homes).
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, Barbourville gained 57 residents with no new homes permitted, so the growth came from existing homes. Across Kentucky: 1.6 new residents per new home.
Every year as a table
| Year | New homes | Single-family | 2+ per building | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Aug) | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2019 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2018 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2017 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2016 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2015 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2014 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2013 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2012 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2011 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2010 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2009 | 12 | 12 | 0 | $1.8 million |
| 2008 | 8 | 8 | 0 | $803,000 |
| 2007 | 11 | 11 | 0 | $1.1 million |
| 2006 | 13 | 13 | 0 | $1.3 million |
| 2005 | 13 | 13 | 0 | $1.3 million |
| 2004 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $260,000 |
| 2003 | 6 | 1 | 5 | $290,000 |
| 2002 | 5 | 5 | 0 | $853,000 |
| 2001 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2000 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $148,000 |
How Barbourville ranks on new homes being built →
Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.
1 of Barbourville’s houses are on the National Register
Half of Barbourville’s homes were built before 1969.
Kentucky: 68% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024. Historic houses: National Register of Historic Places.
On the market in Barbourville
Listed in the past 60 days. Each opens on the listing site.
Neighbors talk housing
What Barbourville buyers, sellers and renters are saying.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research, August 2026. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. New homes: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Historic houses: National Register of Historic Places. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.