South · Kentucky · pop 323K
Lexington, KY
Good match
at the reference profile: one person earning $6,700/mo gross, default weights.
Personalize this score →After estimated taxes in KY, your $6,700/mo income nets about $5,144 — covering estimated essentials here (about $1,020 rent plus everyday costs incl. local sales tax) with roughly $1,798 left over.
Expect summer highs near 86°F, winter lows around 25°F, and about 192 sunny days a year.
Reported crime rates sit below most cities in this dataset.
Tradeoff: this is a quieter market with fewer restaurants and entertainment options per resident.
The Lexington fit print
Est. monthly cost
$3,346/mo
Typical rent
$1,200/mo
Home value ÷ income
4.7×
Score breakdown
The data behind the score
Money (Census ACS · HUD)
- Median gross rent
- $1,080/mo
- HUD fair market rent (2BR)
- $1,200/mo
- Median home value
- $300,000
- Median household income
- $64,000
- Population
- 323,000
Work (BLS)
- Unemployment rate
- 3.7%
- Job growth (1yr)
- 1.5%
Safety (FBI CDE, per 100k)
- Violent crime rate
- 340
- Property crime rate
- 2,200
Climate (NOAA normals)
- Avg. summer high
- 86°F
- Avg. winter low
- 25°F
- Sunny days / year
- 192
- Days ≥100°F by 2050 (air temp)
- ≈10/yr
- Dangerous humid days by 2050 (feels-like)
- ≈58/yr
- Unhealthy air days
- ≈7/yr
- Annual rain
- 46"
- Annual snow
- 12"
Community & access (approx.)
- 2024 county margin
- D+14
- Int'l airport
- ≈80 mi
- Walkability
- 34/100
- Disaster risk
- 42/100
Data vintage: sample-approx-2024. Sources & methodology — this deployment is running the bundled sample dataset; figures are approximate.
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