EvartsKY
A town of 648. A typical home worth about $59K.
What makes Evarts stand out
The 2 things Evarts does most differently from other towns.
648 people, and everyone knows the way
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Weather
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All →- Cumberland Varsity Football @ Evartsmaxpreps.com · Aug 23
- Kentucky State Police locates previously missing 38-year-old Harlan County manLEX 18 News · Jul 25
- Middlesboro Boys Varsity Basketball vs. Evartsmaxpreps.com · Jul 20
Upcoming events
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The data
Ordered by what stands out in Evarts. Another town gets a different order.
A typical Evarts home is worth about $59K
The typical Evarts home is worth about $59,000, down 8.7% in a year, 75% below the Kentucky typical home.
Typical home value
Very high risk, with inland flooding at the top
Expected storm and flood damage is higher than in 94% of U.S. communities.
Evarts’s public schools outperform 12% of Kentucky districts
The public schools Evarts’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 88% of Kentucky’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
| School | Grades | Students | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Evarts Elementary School | PK–8 | 335 | C− |
Most working residents commute out of Evarts
Most working residents leave Evarts for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Middlesborough (5%), Harlan (4%) and Hazard (4%). Half commute less than 21 miles.
Where working residents work
Four seasons, pleasant summers
Evarts has chilly, snowy winters and pleasant summers, with plenty of rain. A typical July afternoon reaches 83°, a January night drops to 25°, and about 35 inches of snow falls in a normal winter.
Typical low → high °F
Crime reported in Evarts
8 crimes were reported in Evarts in 2025: 8 property and 0 violent. In a town this small, a few incidents move the numbers a lot, so rates aren't shown.
Evarts is small, so we show counts rather than rates.
How healthy Evarts is
Evarts beats the Kentucky average on 0 of 5 CDC measures and trails it on 3.
| What stands out | Evarts | KY |
|---|---|---|
| More older adults who have lost all their teeth | 41.7% | 18.9% |
| Fewer adults seeing a dentist | 42.3% | 58.1% |
| Fewer adults screened for colon cancer | 53.2% | 65.8% |
96% of working residents leave Evarts for work
Where Evarts’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
About Evarts
City in Kentucky, United States
Evarts is a home rule-class city in Harlan County, Kentucky, in the United States. The post office was opened on February 9, 1855, and named for one of the area's pioneer families. The city was formally incorporated by the state assembly in 1921. As of the 2020 census, Evarts had a population of 859.
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- Population
- 859
- Area
- 0.4 sq mi
- Elevation
- 1,575 ft
- ZIP code
- 40828
- Area code
- 606