housing costs · Kentucky
Housing costs in Bell County
What it costs to live here: rent, home values and the share of income rent takes.
Median gross rent
| Survey period | Value | Margin of error | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020–2024 | $592 | ± $70 | evidence → |
| 2019–2023 | $617 | ± $82 | evidence → |
| 2018–2022 | $608 | ± $57 | evidence → |
| 2017–2021 | $556 | ± $58 | evidence → |
Median home value
| Survey period | Value | Margin of error | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020–2024 | $89,000 | ± $6,214 | evidence → |
| 2019–2023 | $83,000 | ± $8,016 | evidence → |
| 2018–2022 | $76,700 | ± $9,862 | evidence → |
| 2017–2021 | $67,800 | ± $5,744 | evidence → |
Rent as share of income
| Survey period | Value | Margin of error | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020–2024 | 32.0 % | ± 2.8 % | evidence → |
| 2019–2023 | 32.8 % | ± 3.0 % | evidence → |
| 2018–2022 | 32.4 % | ± 4.1 % | evidence → |
| 2017–2021 | 32.1 % | ± 3.5 % | evidence → |
In context
Median rent in Bell County is $592, below the Kentucky median of $773 across 120 counties (2020–2024).
American Community Survey, five-year estimates. Each release covers five years, so consecutive releases overlap by four of them — a change from one release to the next is damped, and reading them as annual values understates swings. Margins of error are at 90 % confidence and are wide in sparsely populated counties.