Counties / Kentucky / Green County

Green County, KY

FIPS 21087 · population 11,369 · outside every metro area

$192k
Zillow home value · 2026-06
The numbers

What this county costs and earns

Everything here joins on the county FIPS code, so each figure comes from the agency that publishes it with no name matching in between.

Zillow home value
$192k
▲ 2.2% year over year
Zillow ZHVI · direct
ACS median gross rent
$610
occupied-unit survey; not current asking rent
Census ACS · surveyed
Gross yield
n/a
gross yield cannot be computed without measured market rent
requires both measured price and measured rent
HUD 2-bed standard
$866
the Section 8 payment standard
HUD Fair Market Rent · direct
Independent price check

Do two methods point the same way?

Zillow estimates a current home value. FHFA tracks repeat mortgage transactions. Their growth rates should be read side by side, not averaged.

One annual series is unavailable
FHFA five-year cumulativen/anot annualized · through n/a
0%ZILLOW ZHVI2026-06+2.2%FHFA HPIperiod n/an/a
Annual changes use different methods and may use different periods. The comparison checks direction and magnitude; it does not create a blended estimate. Zillow county ZHVI pulled 2026-07-26; FHFA annual county HPI pulled 2026-07-28.
Owner-reported value$125k
Surveyed gross rent$610
Rent burden 30%+37.4%
Median year built1976
Housing composition

Who occupies the stock—and what it is

ACS 2024 5-year
16.4%vacant
5,289estimated housing units
Occupied tenure22.4% renter
owner 77.6%renter 22.4%
Structure mix76.5% single-family
Single-family 76.5%20+ units 0.3%Mobile home 18.7%Other 4.6%
ACS estimates describe the standing housing stock and occupied tenure. They do not measure current listings, transaction prices or asking rents.

Survey source: Census ACS 5-year — county housing value, tenure and stock · ACS 2024 5-year · pulled 2026-07-30. These values describe different housing universes and are not combined into gross yield.

Annual average covered jobs1,901▲ 2.6% from the prior annual release
Covered establishments253annual average reporting locations
Average weekly wage$873▲ 6.7% from the prior annual release
Largest private supersectorEducation and health services41.3% of disclosed private covered jobs
Local labor base

Jobs, pay and private-sector concentration

2025
0%COVERED JOBS+2.6%WEEKLY WAGE+6.7%Education and health services41.3%
Annual QCEW counts cover jobs located at reporting establishments. The industry share uses disclosed private covered employment; it is not a resident-employment measure or a forecast.

Workplace source: BLS QCEW — county employment and wages · annual county employment and wages 2025 vs 2024 · pulled 2026-07-31. QCEW counts covered jobs located in the county, not employed residents or the metro score’s CES/LAUS series.

County brief

What the local evidence says

01Decision frame

Green County presents an underwriting tension: Zillow’s median home value was $191,858 in 2026-06, up 2.22% year over year, while operating income cannot yet be tested. This warrants investigation by buyers able to obtain unit-level rent and flood evidence; yield-focused buyers should be cautious. County market rent is not published, so gross yield cannot be computed. The supplied HUD two-bedroom FMR is a payment standard, not an asking-rent estimate.

02Housing economics

Carrying costs need property-level confirmation. The county effective property-tax rate is 0.65%, but that rate and the reported median annual tax cannot be assigned to the Zillow median-value home. Realtor.com’s MLS snapshot shows 43 active listings, a 62-day median marketing time, and a 10.59% price-reduced share. Those are visible-supply, marketing-time, and seller-concession measures—not closed-sale prices or proof of buyer demand. They also cannot be equated with Zillow’s home-value appreciation.

03Demand & competition

At county workplaces, the 2025 QCEW annual average was 1,901 covered jobs, up 2.65% from the prior annual average. Education and health services, the largest disclosed private supersector, accounted for 41.25% of private covered employment, making employer concentration a diligence item rather than a description of the whole economy. Net migration was 81 tax-return households; inbound movers’ average AGI was $1,041 above outbound movers’. This is directional mover evidence, not household formation or occupancy. Investor mortgage purchases were 4.26% of 94 purchases, so disclosed non-owner participation was limited in count and share.

04Risk & next checks

Inland flood is the dominant hazard, and modeled expected annual climate loss equals 0.16% of building value. The model does not identify parcel exposure, insurance premiums, deductibles, mitigation, or lender requirements. FHFA’s repeat-transaction annual HPI is not published, so no supplied index can cross-check Zillow’s direction or be blended with it. Missing market rent prevents gross-yield and rent-to-price underwriting; missing vacancy, repair, financing, property condition, and closed-sale evidence prevents property-level cash-flow and exit conclusions. Next checks are address-level flood and insurance records, market asking-rent comps, and sale comparables.

Cities & communities

Where people live within Green County

Census-recognized incorporated places and CDPs that intersect this county. The list does not pretend to include every neighborhood or informal community.

Population scale

Largest Census places

ACS 2024 5-year
Greensburg city2.1KSummersville CDP592
Bars use total place population, not a county-share estimate. An asterisk marks a place that crosses a county line.
Official directory

2 Census places

Population
  1. 01
    Greensburg cityIncorporated place
    2,106
  2. 02
    Summersville CDPCensus-designated place
    592

Population is the total place-wide ACS estimate, not an allocated county share. A place crossing a county line is labelled explicitly. Source: Census ACS 5-year — cities and communities · ACS 2024 5-year · pulled 2026-07-30.

Risk, demand and competition

The three things a price does not tell you

01
Risk & carrying costFEMA NRI + Census ACS
Dominant hazardinland flooding

0.160% of building value expected lost per year

Effective property tax0.65%

$817 median annual bill

02
DemandIRS SOI household flows
Net migration+81

277 in · 196 out

Arriving vs leaving income+$1,041

$41,791 arriving · $40,750 leaving

03
CompetitionHMDA financed purchases
Purchases by investors4.3%

4 of 94 mortgages

investorother financed
Current listing pressure

What sellers and visible supply are doing

Realtor.com® Economic Research · county inventory 2026-06 · pulled 2026-07-28
Active listings43▼ 4.5% year over year
Median days on market62▲ 11.7% year over year
Listings price-reduced10.6%seller-concession signal
Median listing pricen/a▲ 9.8% year over year

Listing price is an asking price, not a closed sale. Quality-flagged county rows are withheld instead of displayed.

No rent index is published for this county.Zillow’s county rent series does not cover every county, and estimating one from a neighbouring county would be a guess wearing a number’s clothes. Everything above is measured here; no wider market is mapped for it either.
Bear case

What can break the county thesis

  1. Unpublished market rent and unit-level expenses could make actual cash flow inconsistent with the price case.
  2. Flood exposure, insurance costs, or mitigation needs may exceed county modeled-loss context.
  3. MLS listing conditions may not translate into closed-sale liquidity or achievable exit pricing.
Underwriting questions

Before pricing a property

Can gross yield be calculated from the record?

No. County market rent is not published, and HUD FMR cannot be substituted for market rent.

What is the dominant hazard?

Inland flood; the record provides modeled county-level building-value loss context, not parcel-level exposure or insurance costs.

Which private sector is the largest disclosed employer group?

Education and health services is the largest disclosed private supersector.