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Housing in McRoberts

A typical McRoberts home is worth about $45,000

Down 10.1% in a year, 81% below the Kentucky typical home.

Typical home value
$45K
▼ 10.1% in a year · KY $233K
Zillow
2-bedroom rent
$890
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$878
KY $1,544

What kind of housing town is McRoberts?

Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.

★ What stands out · Affordability

What it takes to buy in McRoberts

Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$231,000
Typical McRoberts home $45K

That covers a typical McRoberts home, with $187K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$290
Loan $220Tax $50Insurance $10

A two-bedroom rents for about $890 a month here, $600 more than owning.

Where your budget reaches nearby

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, McRoberts’s typical property tax (1.46% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.

Price trend

Up 18.6% in five years

Slower than Kentucky (25.2%).

McRobertsKentucky
$0K$50K$100K$150K$200K$250K20182020202220242026
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JanuaryMcRobertsKentucky
2017$30,000$131,000
2018$30,000$138,000
2019$29,000$146,000
2020$29,000$155,000
2021$36,000$173,000
2022$39,000$191,000
2023$41,000$207,000
2024$40,000$216,000
2025$47,000$229,000
2026$47,000$233,000
August 2026$45,000$233,000
Then & now

A typical McRoberts home worth $30K in September 2016 is worth about $45K today.

+$15K
−10.1%
past year
+18.6%
past 5 years
+49.7%
since 2016

Zillow Home Value Index: the typical value of all homes (middle third), smoothed and seasonally adjusted, through August 2026.

The homes

74% of McRoberts households own their home

Half of McRoberts’s homes were built before 1938.

Owners and renters
Own 74%Rent 26%

Kentucky: 68% own.

1938
typical home built · KY 1982
$878
median property tax bill · KY $1,544
1.46%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · KY 0.75%

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $890

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$640
1 bedroom$730
2 bedrooms$890
3 bedrooms$1,140
4 bedrooms$1,390
26%
of households rent · KY 32%

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Letcher County, KY): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.

Next door

McRoberts vs. its neighbors

McRoberts is the least expensive of 3 neighboring towns. Tap one to see its housing page.

Compare more
TownTypical value1-yr change2-bed rentMedian income
McRoberts$45K−10.1%$890—
Jenkins$51K−9.9%$890$27,200
Fleming-Neon$45K−20.3%$870$34,107

Typical value: Zillow Home Value Index; * Census median home value where Zillow has none. † FHFA price index change where Zillow has none. Rent: HUD Fair Market Rent. New homes: Census building permits.

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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. 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.

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