Census-designated place · Meade County, Kentucky

Doe Valley, Kentucky

Doe Valley is a census-designated place in Meade County, Kentucky, part of the Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN metro area. It has 1,776 residents. Doe Valley, Kentucky has a quality-of-life score of 43 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #8,937 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Kentucky it ranks #82 of 243 cities and towns. It ranks best on broadband subscriptions (high), income inequality (Gini index) (low) and violent crime rate (low). It ranks worst on primary care physicians (low), distance to an emergency room (high) and dentists (low).

43Moderate

Quality-of-life score: #8,937 of 15,651 cities and towns
Kentucky: #82 of 243 in KY
Population: 1,776 (2020-2024)
Land area: 4 mi²
Density: 437.5 /mi²
FIPS code: 2121844

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 69 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety63#5,713/15,637
Economy74#4,000/15,631
Housing—
Health47#8,333/15,609
Healthcare13#13,667/15,650
Environment21#12,176/15,453
Education80#3,186/15,649
Infrastructure86#2,133/15,650
Community7#14,548/15,651
Leisure & amenities16#13,133/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Doe Valley, Kentucky ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Meade County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Broadband subscriptions · high100.0%
99/100Kentucky 88.6%United States 91.0%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B28002
Income inequality (Gini index) · low0.295
98/100Kentucky 0.477United States 0.4832020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19083
Violent crime rate · low53 /100k
97/100Kentucky 212 /100kUnited States 328 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationMeade County value
Property crime rate · low297 /100k
97/100Kentucky 1,262 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationMeade County value
Poverty rate · low1.8%
95/100Kentucky 15.4%United States 12.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001High uncertainty
Math scores · high3.46
94/100Kentucky 3.00United States 3.032019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMeade County value

Weaknesses

Primary care physicians · low20 /100k
5/100Kentucky 63 /100kUnited States 76 /100k2022University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMeade County value
Distance to an emergency room · high16.1 mi
6/100Kentucky 6.4 miUnited States 5.5 miJul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesMeade County value
Dentists · low23 /100k
6/100Kentucky 67 /100kUnited States 75 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMeade County value
Distance to an Amtrak station · high119 mi
7/100Kentucky 78 miUnited States 43 mi2026Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauMeade County value
Public EV charging ports · low0.6 /10k
9/100Kentucky 2.6 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergyMeade County value
Mental health providers · low69 /100k
9/100Kentucky 329 /100kUnited States 348 /100k2025University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMeade County value

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

Child poverty rateImproving
20.1% (2015-2019) → 0.0% (2020-2024)
−20 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
2.0× (2015-2019) → 3.1× (2020-2024)
+50%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Poverty rateImproving
11.2% (2015-2019) → 1.8% (2020-2024)
−9.3 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
35.1% (2015-2019) → 42.5% (2020-2024)
+7.4 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
94.9% (2015-2019) → 100.0% (2020-2024)
+5.1 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
High school diploma or higherImproving
93.5% (2015-2019) → 97.9% (2020-2024)
+4.4 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Doe Valley, Kentucky improved on 0 of 10 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 9 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved0

No measure improved by more than its margin of error.

Declined1

Price / income+1.0×2.0× → 3.1×

All 10 measures

Change of every measure of Doe Valley, Kentucky between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	31.2 min2015-2019	31.3 min2020-2024	+0.2 min	Within the margin of error	45%
Bachelor's degree or higher	35.1%2015-2019	42.5%2020-2024	+7.4 points	Within the margin of error	81%
Broadband subscriptions	94.9%2015-2019	100.0%2020-2024	+5.1 points	Within the margin of error	32%
Effective property tax rate	0.75%2015-2019	0.81%2020-2024	+0.1 points	Within the margin of error	9%
High school diploma or higher	93.5%2015-2019	97.9%2020-2024	+4.4 points	Within the margin of error	78%
Home price to income ratio	2.0×2015-2019	3.1×2020-2024	+1.0×	Declined	22%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3562015-2019	0.2952020-2024	−0.060	Within the margin of error	87%
Median household income	$92,6742015-2019	$109,1352020-2024	+18%	Within the margin of error	29%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent-burdened households	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	56%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Doe Valley, Kentucky five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Doe Valley, Kentucky in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, Doe Valley, Kentucky itself moved −0.6 points in standing on average over the same 9 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

1,776 residents (±467)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

686 households (±143)

Doe Valley, Kentucky
Kentucky share

Under $25k5.0%†34
$25k–50k5.4%†37
$50k–75k

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

686 households (±143)

Doe Valley, Kentucky
Kentucky share

Own99.7%684
Rent0.3%†2

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

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Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

862 workers (±294)

Doe Valley, Kentucky
Kentucky share

Drive alone83%†717
Carpool7.0%†60
Public transit

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Meade County, the county holding most of Doe Valley's residents.

Meade County has 362 employer establishments, 120 for every 10,000 residents (0.48× the US rate of 248; 0.58× Kentucky's), with 3,633 paid employees at an average annual pay of $43,468. The Census Bureau also counts 1,799 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 362; 1,799 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 120; US 248 · Kentucky 207
Paid employees: 3,633
Average annual pay: $43,468; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Meade County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Specialty trade contractors	37	12.3	0.79×Fewer than typical	507	$59,112	215
Restaurants and other eating places	32	10.6	0.58×Fewer than typical	549	$17,248	9
Ambulatory health care services	24	7.9	0.38×Fewer than typical	189	$52,619	48
Lessors of real estate	19	6.3	0.51×Fewer than typical	39	$34,615	193
Building equipment contractors	18	6	0.99×About typical	308	$54,549	36
Limited-service restaurants	15	5	0.62×Fewer than typical	388	$17,536	3
Religious organizations	15	5	0.90×About typical	85	$15,953	—
Gasoline stations	14	4.6	1.43×More than typical	96	$21,354	—
Full-service restaurants	13	4.3	0.56×Fewer than typical	151	$16,623	3
Offices of other health practitioners	12	4	0.65×Fewer than typical	49	$45,469	24
General merchandise stores	11	3.6	2.06×More than typical	96	$21,323	13
Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors	11	3.6	1.10×About typical	287	$56,028	21

Rank places for an industry Open Meade County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 30,189 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $0 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Doe Valley, Kentucky: $0 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $0
Per resident: $0; US $1,994
Sole-source: —; US 30%
Single offer: —; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

1.1KFY2017
3.5KFY2018
399.3FY2021

What was bought

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Doe Valley, Kentucky, so they do not add up across cities.

Doe Valley, Kentucky's figures are part of those of Meade County, KY ($2.4M in FY2026), never added to them: 0.0% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Doe Valley is mostly in Meade County.

See federal money in Meade County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Doe Valley, Kentucky is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Brett GuthrieR-KY-2 · 100% of residentsWith party 97%Missed 0.6%

Senate

Explore Congress The 2026 races

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Meade County46100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN53

Other cities and towns in Meade County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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