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Median Home Price in Frankfort, KY

The median home value in Frankfort, KY is $249,495, unchanged from a year earlier.

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City housing-data period: September 2026. City source retrieval/check time (UTC) is recorded in the feed's updated field when available, not in the housing-data period.

Checked daily for new monthly Zillow releases, not new daily prices. Income and crime data are updated separately, not by the daily housing-data check. Unavailable means observation dates are missing or invalid.

Median Home Value

$249,495

Year-over-Year

-0.0%

Population

28,177

Home value history

The typical home value increased by 0.2%, from $248,911 in May 2026 to $249,495 in Sep 2026.

Frankfort, KY typical home value from May 2026 to Sep 2026

Monthly Zillow Home Value Index snapshots retained by HomePriceMap. A short history is shown now and grows automatically as each new monthly release arrives.

Frankfort, KY monthly home value history
MonthTypical home valueYear-over-year change
May 2026$248,911-2.0%
Jun 2026$247,817-1.8%
Jul 2026$248,111-0.8%
Aug 2026$250,122-0.3%
Sep 2026$249,495-0.0%

Frankfort ranks #28 of 66 Kentucky cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 3.5% above the state's city median of $241,066. It sits in Franklin County, where the county-wide median is $248,638.

Housing affordability in Frankfort

Median household income in Frankfort is $53,073, so the typical home value is about 4.7× annual household income. This is a simple price-to-income benchmark rather than a monthly payment estimate; it does not account for mortgage rates, down payments, taxes or insurance.

Household income comes from the U.S. Census Bureau's ACS 5-Year Estimates, table B19013 (how the affordability measure works).

Crime in Frankfort

Frankfort police recorded a violent crime rate of 202 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — around the middle of the range for reporting cities. Property crime runs at 1,643 per 100,000.

Reported by the city's own police department to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program (what this covers).

Common questions about Frankfort

What is the average home price in Frankfort, KY?

People often call this an average home price, but the figure shown here is Zillow's typical home value (ZHVI), not a simple arithmetic average. In Frankfort, that value is $249,495. That's essentially unchanged from a year earlier. It is about 3.5% above the typical Kentucky city tracked here.

Is Frankfort expensive compared to the surrounding area?

Homes in Frankfort are more expensive than Franklin County as a whole, where the median is $248,638 — a difference of about 0.3%.

Is Frankfort affordable?

Median household income here is $53,073, so the typical home value is about 4.7× annual household income. This ratio is a broad comparison measure, not a mortgage-payment estimate.

Is Frankfort a safe place to live?

Frankfort police reported 202 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 28,177. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.

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