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Place dossier plate
SheetKY-PARK-HILLS-KY · Park Hills, KY 3,155 pop · income 79th pct
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Park Hills
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Park Hills on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Barbourville · lowest
20,971
Barbourville · lowest
20,971 median HH income
17.5% of the leader · rank #1
Valley Green · near
102,094
Valley Green · near
102,094 median HH income
85.4% of the leader · rank #2
Waterville · near
102,096
Waterville · near
102,096 median HH income
85.4% of the leader · rank #3
Edenburg · near
102,109
Edenburg · near
102,109 median HH income
85.4% of the leader · rank #4
Park Hills · this city
102,112
Park Hills · this city
102,112 median HH income
85.4% of the leader · rank #5
Orangetree · near
102,133
Orangetree · near
102,133 median HH income
85.4% of the leader · rank #6
El Verano · highest
119,527
El Verano · highest
119,527 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Park Hills on ACS population and median household income
, plus FBI UCR reporting rate when the extract covers this place. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 3,155.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Park Hills - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Park Hills places in the 79th percentile for household income and the 82nd percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
79th
percentile, household income
60th
percentile, home value
10th
percentile, median rent
82nd
percentile, safety
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Park Hills, KY
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 3,155 residents in Park Hills, a small town within Kentucky. Median household income here is $102,112 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 9.9%. Home values in Park Hills run a median of $274,200, and the median resident age is 30.9 years. Educational attainment runs 62.3% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 72.1% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 1 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Construction Slowdown), down 86% from five years earlier. Park Hills reports a comparatively low crime rate: per-100,000 total crime stands at 572.9 in FBI UCR data, below the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Living costs in Kentucky run below the national norm: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Kentucky scores 90.2 (Well Below Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $984 per month statewide. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Kentucky's average monthly utility costs around $225 (state average). Natural-hazard exposure scores 44.2 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Park Hills's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from comparison shortlist to reported crime to housing and income to work and mobility to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Park Hills, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, local building permits, commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles, matched public-school count; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
Which cities make useful reference points for Park Hills?
Within Kentucky, the closest population matches are Wilder (3,148 residents, $71,567 income); Barbourville (3,181 residents, $20,971 income); Morganfield (3,208 residents, $63,546 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Mountain View Acres, CA (3,155 residents); Oracle, AZ (3,154 residents); El Verano, CA (3,154 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Park Hills?
Treat this as a reporting-rate comparison, not a prediction of personal risk or a neighborhood-level safety grade. Tourism, daytime population, reporting practices, and variation inside the city are not adjusted away. The state rank and same-state peer table are the narrower comparisons available on this page.
The joined FBI UCR record reports 572.9 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 75% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
How far does income reach against housing in Park Hills?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 2.7 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 9.9%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. Income and home value move within the same broad scale here. The useful next check is not a generic affordability label, but whether similar-size cities offer a materially different income, housing, or commute trade-off.
What does the journey to work look like in Park Hills?
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. Remote work has a visible role in the local pattern. That can reduce commute exposure for some workers, but it says nothing about job availability or broadband quality; read it alongside income and housing rather than as a stand-alone lifestyle score.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 69.3%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Population change
Is Park Hills growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
The recent population line is broadly flat. That makes the composition of change more important than the headline count: housing turnover, household size, and age structure can shift even when the total barely moves.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +13 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +0.4% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 1 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Period change
+0.4%
2025 estimate
3,188
2020 estimate
3,175
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Bachelor's+ share A+
62.3%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Cost of living A
90.2 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Household income B+
$102,112
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime B
96 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate D
9.9%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Park Hills profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 93/100 (A+) · 62.3%
Cost of living: 85/100 (A) · 90.2 index
Household income: 78/100 (B+) · $102,112
Violent crime: 72/100 (B) · 96 /100k
Poverty rate: 40/100 (D) · 9.9%
Where Park Hills sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Park Hills's median home value and FBI crime rate plotted with similar-size and
same-state peers (padded with large cities when the peer set is thin). The second
read: pricey does not always mean safer, check which quadrant this city lands in.
Census ACS median home value vs FBI UCR crime rate - Park Hills highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
Park Hills, KY (this city): home $274,200, crime 573/100k
East Dundee, IL : home $260,000, crime 2,520/100k
East Greenville, PA : home $216,200, crime 666/100k
Wilder, KY : home $137,600, crime 748/100k
Barbourville, KY : home $190,200, crime 992/100k
Morganfield, KY : home $116,100, crime 805/100k
Stanton, KY : home $127,200, crime 600/100k
Hodgenville, KY : home $137,100, crime 1,500/100k
How does Park Hills compare to other US cities?
Park Hills measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income79% higher than other cities
Home value60% pricier than other cities
Median rent10% pricier than other cities
Safety82% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
Zoom in to just Kentucky and the picture shifts: Park Hills ranks #67 of 181 Kentucky cities by lowest crime rate, a different read than the national percentile above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Park Hills against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Kentucky only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Kentucky-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Park Hills near the bottom of Kentucky's cities
Among the 520 Kentucky cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Park Hills ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Park Hills only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#67 of 485
86th percentile in Kentucky
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 520
0th percentile in Kentucky
Median Home Value
#78 of 484
84th percentile in Kentucky
Poverty Rate
#279 of 519
46th percentile in Kentucky
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#38 of 520
93rd percentile in Kentucky
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within Kentucky only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
79th percentile nationally for median household income · 82nd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Park Hills's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Park Hills's percentile rank on 3 favorable-direction measures (income, affordability, safety) vs. every tracked US city -- higher on every axis is more favorable. Not a composite quality score, just the arithmetic mean of the axes shown.
How Park Hills's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$274,20040th percentilemore affordable than 40% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
Park Hills's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.7×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#4,961 of 15,516
More affordable than 68% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#4,365 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.7×, Park Hills sits in the affordable band:
national rank #4,961 of 15,516 and #4,365 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
The multiple is comparatively compact among tracked cities, but a low ratio can still coexist with slow demand or household-level hardship.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$102,112Park Hills, KY median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Park Hills, KY median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Park Hills, KY.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)62.3%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)9.9%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)72.1%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
3,155
Median Income
$102,112
Median Home Value
$274,200
Median Age
30.9
Poverty Rate
9.9%
Labor force participation
72.1%
Bachelor's Degree+
62.3%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
572.9
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
95.5
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
477.4
per 100,000 residents
Crime reporting caveat
Reflects incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program — agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies by jurisdiction and year, so this reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score. Not adjusted for tourism, commuter, or daytime population.
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Park Hills's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
3,175 residents
2021
3,172 residents
2022
3,168 residents
2023
3,174 residents
2024
3,196 residents
2025
3,188 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
1
housing units authorized
Single-Family
1
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.3
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
7
7
0
$3.1M
2020
3
3
0
$2.7M
2021
7
7
0
$3.8M
2022
1
1
0
$0.8M
2023
0
0
0
-
2024
1
1
0
$0.7M
Permit volume decreased 86% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
69.3%
Carpool
5.7%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
25.0%
Based on 1,793 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Kentucky statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $225
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Kentucky at $225 (electricity about $115 , water and sewer about $40 ).
These are Kentucky statewide averages, not a meter reading for Park Hills. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Kentucky's BEA cost-of-living index is 90.2 (Well Below Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Park Hills is $984/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Kentucky statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 44.2 / 100 (Low).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Kentucky statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Park Hills sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Park Hills compares to similar-size Kentucky cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, FBI UCR, Census BPS 2024, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.