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Home appreciation in Bowling Green, KY

Over the five years ending 2025, home prices in Bowling Green, KY grew an average of 8.9% a year.

Price growth at a glance

1-year

+2.8%

2025 over 2024. Kentucky: +4.9%.

5-year, per year

+8.9%

Average annual growth, 2020 to 2025. Kentucky: +8.9%.

10-year, per year

+6.5%

+87.9% in total since 2015. Kentucky: +6.6%.

How does your home compare?

Bowling Green, KY home prices rose 87.9% over the ten years to 2025, while its ZIP codes ranged from +38.6% to +115.6%. Look up your home to see where it ranks among the homes around it.

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How Bowling Green, KY compares with Kentucky

The metro and its state moved almost together over that window. For five-year price growth, Bowling Green, KY ranks 224th out of 409 metros nationwide and 3rd out of 6 in Kentucky.

Index, 2005 = 100

Bowling Green, KY and Kentucky, quarterly house price index rebased to 100 in 2005.
YearBowling Green, KYKentucky
2005 Q1100100
2005 Q2101101
2005 Q3104103
2005 Q4104104
2006 Q1105105
2006 Q2105105
2006 Q3105105
2006 Q4106106
2007 Q1107107
2007 Q2107108
2007 Q3108108
2007 Q4108109
2008 Q1109109
2008 Q2110109
2008 Q3107107
2008 Q4109108
2009 Q1109109
2009 Q2109108
2009 Q3108107
2009 Q4108107
2010 Q1107106
2010 Q2107106
2010 Q3109107
2010 Q4109107
2011 Q1106105
2011 Q2106104
2011 Q3109105
2011 Q4108106
2012 Q1108105
2012 Q2108105
2012 Q3109106
2012 Q4110106
2013 Q1111106
2013 Q2109107
2013 Q3111106
2013 Q4109106
2014 Q1111106
2014 Q2111108
2014 Q3112108
2014 Q4112109
2015 Q1115110
2015 Q2115111
2015 Q3117112
2015 Q4117113
2016 Q1117113
2016 Q2118115
2016 Q3121117
2016 Q4124117
2017 Q1123118
2017 Q2129121
2017 Q3130122
2017 Q4131122
2018 Q1130124
2018 Q2133126
2018 Q3133127
2018 Q4134127
2019 Q1135129
2019 Q2138131
2019 Q3139133
2019 Q4139134
2020 Q1140135
2020 Q2142137
2020 Q3143139
2020 Q4145142
2021 Q1148145
2021 Q2155151
2021 Q3163159
2021 Q4172164
2022 Q1176168
2022 Q2187178
2022 Q3190181
2022 Q4200182
2023 Q1198184
2023 Q2204190
2023 Q3204191
2023 Q4201193
2024 Q1210195
2024 Q2211202
2024 Q3214204
2024 Q4214205
2025 Q1213208
2025 Q2219210
2025 Q3218213
2025 Q4223215
2026 Q1221217
2026 Q2225220

Chart through 2026 Q2. Annual growth figures through 2025.

Growth was stronger over the last five years than over the full decade: +6.5% a year over ten years, +87.9% in total.

Over this history, home prices never fell more than 1.2% from a prior peak.

The strongest year was 2022 at +17.9%, and the weakest was 2010 at -0.8%.

In 2025 alone the index moved +2.8%, against +4.9% for the state.

ZIP codes in Bowling Green, KY

Over the ten years to 2025, the 9 ZIP codes FHFA measures in this metro ranged from +38.6% in 42274 to +115.6% in 42261, while the metro as a whole rose 87.9%.

ZIP codes in Bowling Green, KY ranked by 10-year home-price change through 2025 Column headers are buttons: click to sort, click again to reverse, and a third time to restore the original order.
42261+3.7%+11.7%+8.0%+115.6%
42164+6.5%+11.2%+7.6%+108.4%
42170-2.6%+8.8%+7.0%+96.2%
42101+10.2%+9.4%+6.8%+93.5%
42171+2.1%+9.9%+6.7%+90.8%
42122+1.6%+9.1%+6.3%+84.0%
42103+1.6%+8.2%+6.0%+78.5%
42104+3.2%+7.9%+5.9%+77.1%
42274-19.6%+5.0%+3.3%+38.6%

What a home report shows

Enter an address and you get a score out of 10 for how the home ranks on appreciation potential against comparable homes in its market, with the nearby sales behind it. Here is one saved report.

Example report · saved October 14, 2026

165 N Canal St, Apt 1205, Chicago, IL 60606

Appreciation score

4.1 / 10

Around the median

Where it ranks

Ranks above about 41% of comparable homes in Chicago, IL for appreciation potential.

Price against nearby sales

Priced below most nearby sales, at $300 per square foot across 6 comparable sales.

Read the full example report

Year by year

Annual house price index for Bowling Green, KY and Kentucky, 2005 = 100 Column headers are buttons: click to sort, click again to reverse, and a third time to restore the original order.
2005100.0—100.0
2006102.9+2.9%103.2
2007105.0+2.0%105.7
2008106.3+1.2%106.3
2009106.2-0.1%105.5
2010105.3-0.8%104.3
2011105.0-0.3%103.0
2012106.2+1.2%103.6
2013107.5+1.2%104.2
2014108.6+1.0%105.4
2015113.4+4.4%109.2
2016117.3+3.4%113.3
2017125.1+6.7%118.5
2018129.6+3.6%123.6
2019134.7+4.0%128.9
2020139.2+3.4%135.6
2021155.8+11.9%151.6
2022183.6+17.9%173.8
2023197.1+7.4%185.8
2024207.3+5.2%197.8
2025213.1+2.8%207.5

The 6 measured metros in Kentucky

Measured metros in Kentucky ranked by 5-year home-price appreciation through 2025 Column headers are buttons: click to sort, click again to reverse, and a third time to restore the original order.
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1Elizabethtown, KY+3.3%+9.9%+6.8%
2Lexington-Fayette, KY+5.1%+9.7%+7.3%
3Bowling Green, KY+2.8%+8.9%+6.5%
4Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN+5.1%+8.2%+6.5%
5Paducah, KY-IL+4.0%+8.2%+5.3%
6Owensboro, KY+4.3%+7.8%+6.1%

Source & method: Metro figures: FHFA quarterly all-transactions index for metropolitan statistical areas and metropolitan divisions, annualized as the mean of the four quarterly (NSA) values. State figures: FHFA quarterly all-transactions index, annualized as the mean of the four quarterly (NSA) values. The chart uses quarterly readings, with each series set to 100 in the first quarter of 2005. ZIP figures: FHFA annual five-digit ZIP index (developmental), ZIPs with sufficient transaction history. Missing years are reported as missing by FHFA and are not estimated. Each ZIP is placed in the metro that holds the county with most of its housing units. “5-yr /yr” and “10-yr /yr” are compound annual growth over the window ending 2025; all figures are nominal. Data published by the FHFA House Price Index; this edition compiled 2026-10-17. Educational data, not investment advice.

See the Kentucky row in the state rankings, the county rankings, and, for why one metro number hides so much, why two homes in the same ZIP code appreciate differently.

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Measured FHFA data · chart through 2026 Q2