$234,510 is the median home price across Kentucky, set against a $64,526 median household income for a 3.6x price-to-income ratio, 44% below the national median price.
Property taxes in Kentucky average 0.74% of assessed value, below the 1.1% national average. On the median home, that's $1,735 a year, or $145 added to the monthly payment.
Unlike the nine no-income-tax states, Kentucky taxes wage income at 3.5% flat. Worth running your actual take-home pay against the $1,441/month payment here before locking in a target price.
Day-to-day expenses statewide track at 92 against the national 100 baseline, below average once you look past the mortgage payment itself.
Kentucky's median home price runs 2% lower than Iowa: $240,435 there versus $234,510 here.