40422Danville, Kentucky

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 40422.

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How this area ranks
Opportunity5412th of 6,210 published ZIP areas34
SchoolsTop 13% of 4,422 published ZIP areas80
Housing affordabilityTop 27% of 6,685 published ZIP areas92
ClimateTop 38% of 6,789 published ZIP areas73
Physical resilienceTop 31% of 6,709 published ZIP areas74
Access6317th of 6,791 published ZIP areas61
Economic stability5459th of 6,742 published ZIP areas40
The quick read

Employment conditions sit below most comparable published ZIP profiles: unemployment is 5.8% and the Opportunity signal places 40422 in the bottom 13%.

Rent takes 16% of median household income here, below the 30% threshold conventionally called cost-burdened, and the median home is 3.7 times that income.

A typical July reaches 87°F and a typical January falls to 23°F, on thirty-year normals.

At a glance

Population
25,950
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$59,615
Bottom 29% nationally
Density
240/sq mi
108.3 sq mi of land
Median age
39.3
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Danville
Kentucky
Metro area
Danville, KY
Nearest major airport
SDF
63 mi · Louisville Muhammad Ali Intl
Median home value
$220,400
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 5.8% is lower than 11% of the 6,544 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment fell 0.8% over the past year, to 12,768 employed residents.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$4,692$59,615Bottom 29%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$2,076$32,157Bottom 34%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate15.1%Top 31%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute22.5 minBottom 22%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher27.6%Top 39%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment12,768Bottom 6%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)-0.5%Bottom 43%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-0.8%Bottom 49%June 2026
Labor force13,554Bottom 6%June 2026
Labor force participation55.1%Bottom 31%2024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)0.4%Top 37%June 2026
Unemployment rate5.8%Top 11%June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202461k54k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $59,615 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish labor-force data for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Danville, KY, the city containing this ZIP code.

42% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 53% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 14.9 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
9
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
14.9
across all schools here
Math proficiency
42.2%
Top 17% in Kentucky
Reading proficiency
53.4%
Top 12% in Kentucky
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Boyle County High SchoolBoyle County86917.4
Woodlawn Elementary SchoolBoyle County65715.351%61%
Boyle County Middle SchoolBoyle County65516.452%62%
Edna L. Toliver Intermediate SchoolDanville Independent52012.732%34%
Danville High SchoolDanville Independent49214.9
John W. Bate Middle SchoolDanville Independent35813.322%52%
Mary G. Hogsett Primary SchoolDanville Independent35613.2
Kentucky School for the DeafKentucky School for the Deaf District72
Sunrise AcademyDanville Independent279.0

55.3% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with rather than how the schools perform, which is why AreaProfile shows it and does not score it.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data. Schools are placed by ZIP code, so this is which schools are in this place rather than which one a particular address is zoned for — district boundaries do not follow municipal ones, and enrollment zones change. Fully virtual schools are excluded: they enroll students from across the state while reporting one administrative address, and counting them here would describe a school population this place does not have. The assessment covers grades 3 through 8, so a high school shows no proficiency figure — a dash in those columns means the test was not given at that school, not that it performed badly. Proficiency is measured against Kentucky’s own standard, so it compares cleanly within the state and only broadly against other states; AreaProfile therefore ranks it within state. The directory is current, while the proficiency figures are from the last school year with national coverage before the pandemic interrupted testing.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Median rent of $776 takes 16% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 3.7 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Rent as a share of income
15.6%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
3.7×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$776
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$220,400
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income3.70Top 34%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate63.9%Bottom 20%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±27310,740Top 15%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$38$776Bottom 21%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$10,385$220,400Top 50%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income15.6%Bottom 35%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate7.2%Bottom 34%2024 ACS 5-Year

Both affordability measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with, so the comparison is like for like. They describe housing cost against local earnings and are not a cost-of-living index — transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not included, and a place can look affordable here and still be expensive to live in for reasons this does not capture.

Growth & development

How it’s calculated →

No building-permit activity is published for this location by the Census Building Permits Survey.

Weather & climate

7 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 87°F and January a low of 23°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 47.9 inches.

10°30°50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station DANVILLE, 2.0 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND5.0"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation47.9"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low23°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high87°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months71991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing43°F1991-2020 Normals

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today.

Physical risk

74 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are tornado, strong wind and earthquake.

Overall hazard risk is lower than 79% of measured US ZIP areas.

Strong windModerate
TornadoModerate
HailModerate
EarthquakeElevated

Low or minimal exposure: winter weather, ice storm, lightning, cold wave, inland flooding, heat wave, hurricane, landslide, drought, wildfire.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. ZIP values are the land-area-weighted mean of the counties the ZIP Code Tabulation Area intersects. Expected annual loss is not allocated below county level. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offences. AreaProfile does not publish reported crime, and this is not a substitute for it — it says nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Boyle County records 3.7 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, near the middle of counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 15.5 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 32.3 per 100,000 residents in Boyle County.

Homicide
3.7
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
15.5
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
32.3
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
17.9
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides. The two columns overlap and should not be added.

Age-adjusted rates from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC for Boyle County as a whole — these rates are not published below county level. A county can hold both a dense city centre and a suburb whose experience of it is nothing alike, so this describes the county around 40422 rather than 40422 itself. That is why AreaProfile shows these figures and does not put them in the Area Score. Where fewer than ten deaths were recorded the count is suppressed at source, and a rate built on single figures moves sharply between releases. What this measure has that reported crime does not: a death certificate is filed whether or not the local police agency submitted a return that year, so the figures stay comparable between places and over time.

What this profile does not cover

Three things people look for are missing from every AreaProfile page, and each is missing for a reason rather than by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them and the weighting is documented on the methodology page.

Reported crime
The FBI’s Crime Data Explorer is the only source for reported offences with national coverage and a published method, and it requires an API key AreaProfile does not hold. Arrest counts, news volume and commercial “safety scores” are not substituted in the meantime. What is published above under Safety is a different measurement — deaths rather than offences, from death certificates rather than police returns — and it covers no property crime at all.
Taxes
No tax dataset has met the source admission test for coverage, transparent methodology and update cadence. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Full cost of living
No public source publishes one with national coverage and a documented method. Housing affordability above is computed from published rent, price and income, and excludes transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes — commuting cost in particular tends to offset suburban housing savings.

Access

2 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 63 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Louisville Muhammad Ali IntlSDF63 mi11,887 ft
Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky IntlCVG97 mi10,000 ft
Owensboro/Daviess County RgnlOWB129 mi8,000 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource periodUpdated
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle28-day NASR cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)Periodic dataset versions (v1.20.0 current)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 NormalsEvery ten years (next release follows the 2001–2030 period)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimateAnnual (vintage released each spring)
Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-YearAnnual (5-year estimates released each December)
safetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
April, 2025 to March, 2026Quarterly, with a rolling twelve-month window alongside complete calendar years
schoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2019-20 school year; 2024-25 school yearDirectory annually; assessment results as EDFacts releases them

Profile recalculated August 30, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology or browse every source.

40422 vs Danville

How this ZIP area compares with Danville as a whole. Both figures come from the same ACS release, so the comparison is like for like.

40422
Danville
Median household income
$59,615
vs
$52,646
Per capita income
$32,157
vs
$29,645
Population density
240/sq mi
vs
958/sq mi
Median home value
$220,400
vs
$207,600
Median gross rent
$776
vs
$762
Homeownership rate
63.9%
vs
56.4%
Bachelor's degree or higher
27.6%
vs
26.5%
Poverty rate
15.1%
vs
17.4%
Median age
39.3
vs
37.8

Some demographic statistics use Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate but do not exactly match USPS ZIP delivery geography. See the methodology for how AreaProfile maps between them.