Mount Washington, Kentucky

Area Profile

18,480 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Mount Washington, in Bullitt County.

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How this area ranks
Opportunity3106th of 3,904 published cities42
SchoolsTop 33% of 2,668 published cities65
Housing affordabilityTop 8% of 4,223 published cities100
ClimateTop 29% of 4,223 published cities75
Physical resilience2475th of 4,182 published cities49
AccessTop 37% of 4,226 published cities95
Economic stabilityTop 10% of 4,226 published cities78
The quick read

Employment conditions sit below most comparable published city profiles: unemployment is 5.8% and the Opportunity signal places Mount Washington in the bottom 20%.

Housing is more affordable relative to local incomes than in most published city profiles: rent takes 13% of median household income and the median home is 2.8 times it.

A major airport is 13 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
18,480
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$96,239
Top 21% nationally
Density
1,931/sq mi
9.6 sq mi of land
Median age
39.2
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Bullitt County
Kentucky
Metro area
Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN
Nearest major airport
SDF
13 mi · Louisville Muhammad Ali Intl
Median home value
$268,200
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 5.8% is lower than 9% of the 3,904 measured US cities.

Employment fell 1.7% over the past year, to 41,980 employed residents.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$5,608$96,239Top 21%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$2,312$41,971Top 29%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate5.3%Bottom 25%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute31.5 minTop 28%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher26.1%Top 37%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment41,980Bottom 46%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)0.1%Top 46%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-1.7%Bottom 29%June 2026
Labor force44,569Bottom 46%June 2026
Labor force participation69.4%Top 20%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$62,310Bottom 23%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$48,370Bottom 24%2025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)1.3%Top 2%June 2026
Unemployment rate5.8%Top 9%June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202496k83k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $96,239 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.
Largest occupations — Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand29,400$46,830
Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators20,920$48,440
Registered Nurses18,180$84,850
Retail Salespersons17,540$30,660
General and Operations Managers16,830$89,140
Stockers and Order Fillers16,410$37,610

Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes city-level labor data only for places of 25,000 or more. This is the figure for Bullitt County, KY, which contains this city.

34% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 51% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 18.5 students for every full-time teacher, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
8
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
18.5
across all schools here
Math proficiency
34.2%
Top 29% in Kentucky
Reading proficiency
51.4%
Top 18% in Kentucky
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Bullitt East High SchoolBullitt County1,66419.6
Eastside Middle SchoolBullitt County68217.932%57%
Pleasant Grove Elementary SchoolBullitt County66118.952%58%
Old Mill Elementary SchoolBullitt County59117.930%41%
MT. Washington ElementaryBullitt County57718.634%52%
MT. Washington Middle SchoolBullitt County47419.822%52%
Crossroads ElementaryBullitt County46916.231%46%
Spring MeadowsBullitt County126.0

33.1% 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 $1,008 takes 13% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 2.8 times median household income here, close to the historic benchmark for an affordable market.

Rent as a share of income
12.6%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
2.8×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,008
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$268,200
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income2.79Bottom 46%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate86.1%Top 29%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±2867,161Top 8%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$157$1,008Top 47%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$10,624$268,200Top 33%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income12.6%Bottom 12%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate3.1%Bottom 20%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 →

Population has grown 4% since 2020, reaching 18,863 in 2024.

Population is still rising, but more slowly than in the preceding year.

Population, annual estimates
2020202120222023202419k18k
Census Population Estimates Program, July 1 of each year. These annual estimates are designed for year-over-year comparison, unlike the ACS five-year figure shown as this profile's population.

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 89°F and January a low of 28°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 48.3 inches, including 13.4 inches of snow.

Air quality measures a median index of 43, in the Good band, and one day a year passes 100, the threshold at which the air is unhealthy for sensitive groups.

20°40°60°80°100°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station LOUISVILLE INTL AP, 13.8 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND5.2"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index58.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation48.3"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall13.4"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low28°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high89°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months71991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10012024 calendar year
Median air quality index43.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing44°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
43
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
58
90th percentile index
Days above 100
1
unhealthy for sensitive groups

A comfortable median and a bad tail are different problems. Wildfire smoke and summer ozone show up in the worst tenth of days, not in the middle of the year.

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. Air quality is measured rather than modelled, by EPA monitors, and published by county only where a monitor sits — roughly half the counties AreaProfile publishes have one, and the rest show nothing rather than an estimate. Air masses are regional, so a county reading describes the air over a place reasonably well, but it is still the county reading.

Physical risk

49 / 100
Physical resilience

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

Strong windModerate
TornadoModerate
Inland floodingElevated
EarthquakeModerate

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

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. City values are the population-weighted mean of the counties the city overlaps, using AreaProfile place-to-county land-area weights. 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.

Bullitt County records 2.7 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 14.1 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 14.1 per 100,000 residents in Bullitt County.

Homicide
2.7
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
14.1
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
14.1
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
21.2
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 Bullitt 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 Mount Washington rather than Mount Washington 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

3 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 13 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Louisville Muhammad Ali IntlSDF13 mi11,887 ft
Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky IntlCVG84 mi10,000 ft
Owensboro/Daviess County RgnlOWB90 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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Other cities in Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
Louisville/Jefferson CountyJefferson County631,818vs Mount Washington
JeffersonvilleClark County51,04369vs Mount Washington
New AlbanyFloyd County37,58164vs Mount Washington
JeffersontownJefferson County29,19957vs Mount Washington
ClarksvilleClark County22,01666vs Mount Washington
ShelbyvilleShelby County17,668vs Mount Washington
St. MatthewsJefferson County17,577vs Mount Washington
ShivelyJefferson County15,638vs Mount Washington
ShepherdsvilleBullitt County14,533vs Mount Washington
BardstownNelson County13,804vs Mount Washington
LyndonJefferson County11,030vs Mount Washington
La GrangeOldham County10,311vs Mount Washington

Every city here is measured on the same scale from the same source releases, so the comparison is like for like. A higher Area Score reflects AreaProfile’s standardized weighting rather than a judgment about which is the better place to live.

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
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
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
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar yearAnnually, once a calendar year is complete

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.

ZIP codes in Mount Washington

1 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
4004723,662$99,124