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Home appreciation in Elizabethtown, KY

Over the five years ending 2025, home prices in Elizabethtown, KY grew an average of 9.9% a year.

Price growth at a glance

1-year

+3.3%

2025 over 2024. Kentucky: +4.9%.

5-year, per year

+9.9%

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

10-year, per year

+6.8%

+93.3% in total since 2015. Kentucky: +6.6%.

How does your home compare?

Elizabethtown, KY home prices rose 93.3% over the ten years to 2025, while its ZIP codes ranged from +87.3% to +118.3%. Look up your home to see where it ranks among the homes around it.

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How Elizabethtown, KY compares with Kentucky

Kentucky averaged +8.9% a year, so Elizabethtown, KY grew faster than the state overall. For five-year price growth, Elizabethtown, KY ranks 119th out of 409 metros nationwide and 1st out of 6 in Kentucky.

Index, 2005 = 100

Elizabethtown, KY and Kentucky, quarterly house price index rebased to 100 in 2005.
YearElizabethtown, KYKentucky
2005 Q1100100
2005 Q2101101
2005 Q3105103
2005 Q4104104
2006 Q1108105
2006 Q2109105
2006 Q3110105
2006 Q4111106
2007 Q1112107
2007 Q2113108
2007 Q3112108
2007 Q4113109
2008 Q1115109
2008 Q2115109
2008 Q3111107
2008 Q4112108
2009 Q1113109
2009 Q2113108
2009 Q3111107
2009 Q4110107
2010 Q1111106
2010 Q2113106
2010 Q3115107
2010 Q4115107
2011 Q1114105
2011 Q2111104
2011 Q3115105
2011 Q4115106
2012 Q1115105
2012 Q2114105
2012 Q3116106
2012 Q4115106
2013 Q1113106
2013 Q2113107
2013 Q3111106
2013 Q4112106
2014 Q1109106
2014 Q2111108
2014 Q3115108
2014 Q4113109
2015 Q1111110
2015 Q2115111
2015 Q3115112
2015 Q4115113
2016 Q1113113
2016 Q2117115
2016 Q3117117
2016 Q4117117
2017 Q1119118
2017 Q2122121
2017 Q3120122
2017 Q4121122
2018 Q1124124
2018 Q2126126
2018 Q3127127
2018 Q4127127
2019 Q1129129
2019 Q2132131
2019 Q3131133
2019 Q4132134
2020 Q1135135
2020 Q2135137
2020 Q3137139
2020 Q4142142
2021 Q1145145
2021 Q2154151
2021 Q3160159
2021 Q4166164
2022 Q1175168
2022 Q2183178
2022 Q3190181
2022 Q4180182
2023 Q1190184
2023 Q2202190
2023 Q3208191
2023 Q4205193
2024 Q1202195
2024 Q2212202
2024 Q3219204
2024 Q4220205
2025 Q1214208
2025 Q2222210
2025 Q3221213
2025 Q4224215
2026 Q1226217
2026 Q2224220

Chart through 2026 Q2. Annual growth figures through 2025.

Growth was stronger over the last five years than over the full decade: +6.8% a year over ten years, +93.3% in total.

Over this history, home prices never fell more than 2.4% from a prior peak.

The strongest year was 2022 at +16.6%, and the weakest was 2013 at -2.2%.

In 2025 alone the index moved +3.3%, against +4.9% for the state.

ZIP codes in Elizabethtown, KY

Over the ten years to 2025, the 5 ZIP codes FHFA measures in this metro ranged from +87.3% in 42701 to +118.3% in 40160, while the metro as a whole rose 93.3%.

ZIP codes in Elizabethtown, 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.
40160+9.2%+12.0%+8.1%+118.3%
42748+10.1%+11.2%+7.6%+107.5%
40162+3.8%+9.3%+6.6%+89.7%
40175+4.2%+8.8%+6.5%+88.3%
42701+3.4%+9.8%+6.5%+87.3%

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 Elizabethtown, 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
2006106.9+6.9%103.2
2007109.6+2.5%105.7
2008110.2+0.6%106.3
2009109.1-1.0%105.5
2010111.0+1.7%104.3
2011110.90.0%103.0
2012112.1+1.1%103.6
2013109.6-2.2%104.2
2014109.5-0.1%105.4
2015111.1+1.5%109.2
2016113.0+1.7%113.3
2017117.4+3.9%118.5
2018122.7+4.5%123.6
2019127.9+4.2%128.9
2020133.9+4.7%135.6
2021152.2+13.7%151.6
2022177.5+16.6%173.8
2023196.4+10.6%185.8
2024207.9+5.8%197.8
2025214.8+3.3%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