A typical Frenchburg home is worth about $132,000
Down 15.8% in a year, 43% below the Kentucky typical home.
Only 1 sale in May 2026: in a market this size, monthly medians swing a lot, so the typical value is the steadier guide.
Housing in Frenchburg, in brief
Prices are 17% below their 2025 peak
The typical Frenchburg home peaked at $159K in June 2025 and is worth about $132K now. Across Kentucky, values are at or near their high. Over five years, Frenchburg is still up 23%. Price trend ↓
Owning can cost less than renting
With 20% down at the calculator’s rate, the typical Frenchburg home runs about $720 a month with tax and insurance. A two-bedroom rents for about $870. The hurdle is getting in: the down payment, and a budget at the median income that falls short of the typical home. Can I afford it? ↓
Written from the data on this page. Home values are the Zillow Home Value Index, through August 2026; incomes, rents paid, taxes and ownership come from the Census American Community Survey, which has wide margins in a place this size.
Up 23% in five years
About the same pace as Kentucky (25.2%).
Show as a table
| January | Frenchburg | Kentucky |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | $80,000 | $131,000 |
| 2018 | $74,000 | $138,000 |
| 2019 | $75,000 | $146,000 |
| 2020 | $81,000 | $155,000 |
| 2021 | $100,000 | $173,000 |
| 2022 | $114,000 | $191,000 |
| 2023 | $122,000 | $207,000 |
| 2024 | $131,000 | $216,000 |
| 2025 | $132,000 | $229,000 |
| 2026 | $141,000 | $233,000 |
| August 2026 | $132,000 | $233,000 |
A typical Frenchburg home worth $79K in September 2016 is worth about $132K today.
Zillow Home Value Index: the typical value of all homes (middle third), smoothed and seasonally adjusted, through August 2026.
A typical home costs 4.9 years of income
More than across Kentucky (3.7 years). Try your own numbers below.
That’s $17K short of a typical Frenchburg home.
A two-bedroom rents for about $870 a month here, $150 more than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Frenchburg’s typical property tax (0.30% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
A two-bedroom rents for about $870
Renters already here pay a median of $268, 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 (Bath County, KY): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
57% of Frenchburg households own their home
Half of Frenchburg’s homes were built before 1985.
Kentucky: 68% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.
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What Frenchburg buyers, sellers and renters are saying.
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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research, August 2026. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center, May 2026. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.