City · Jefferson County, Kentucky

Hurstbourne, Kentucky

Hurstbourne is a city in Jefferson County, Kentucky, part of the Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN metro area. It has 4,702 residents. Hurstbourne, Kentucky has a quality-of-life score of 58 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #6,505 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Kentucky it ranks #50 of 243 cities and towns. It ranks best on distance to an airport (low), food insecurity (low) and frequent mental distress (low). It ranks worst on property crime rate (high), homicide rate (high) and comfortable days (low).

58Moderate

Quality-of-life score: #6,505 of 15,651 cities and towns
Kentucky: #50 of 243 in KY
Population: 4,702 (2020-2024)
Land area: 2 mi²
Density: 2,611.5 /mi²
FIPS code: 2138814

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 74 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.

Safety2#15,371/15,637
Economy86#2,129/15,631
Housing82#2,725/14,977
Health59#6,476/15,609
Healthcare75#3,937/15,650
Environment4#14,787/15,453
Education50#7,817/15,649
Infrastructure74#4,055/15,650
Community38#9,666/15,651
Leisure & amenities89#1,735/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Hurstbourne, Kentucky ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Jefferson 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

Distance to an airport · low7 mi
99/100Kentucky 44 miUnited States 33 mi2025Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauJefferson County value
Food insecurity · low5.9%
99/100Kentucky 16.0%United States 15.6%2022Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Frequent mental distress · low13.0%
98/100Kentucky 16.4%United States 18.6%2022University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Lack of reliable transportation · low4.4%
98/100Kentucky 9.1%United States 8.3%2022Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Bachelor's degree or higher · high70.8%
96/100Kentucky 27.5%United States 35.7%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003
Drought exposure · low1%
94/100Kentucky 21%United States 43%Oct 2025–Sep 2026National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAAJefferson County value

Weaknesses

Property crime rate · high3,367 /100k
1/100Kentucky 1,262 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationJefferson County value
Homicide rate · high14.5 /100k
3/100Kentucky 5.5 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataJefferson County value
Comfortable days · low22.1%
3/100Kentucky 23.7%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationJefferson County value
Violent crime rate · high608 /100k
5/100Kentucky 212 /100kUnited States 328 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationJefferson County value
Injury deaths · high141 /100k
5/100Kentucky 115 /100kUnited States 87 /100k2019-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteJefferson County value
Drug overdose deaths · high30.7 /100k
8/100Kentucky 23.1 /100kUnited States 18.4 /100kMar 2025–Feb 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataJefferson County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
4,394 (2015-2019) → 4,702 (2020-2024)
+7%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
10.8% (2015-2019) → 29.2% (2020-2024)
+18 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
3.4× (2015-2019) → 4.7× (2020-2024)
+37%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
14.9% (2015-2019) → 19.2% (2020-2024)
+4.3 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Uninsured residents (under 65)Worsening
0.3% (2015-2019) → 4.1% (2020-2024)
+3.8 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%
Poverty rateWorsening
1.8% (2015-2019) → 5.5% (2020-2024)
+3.7 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%

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, Hurstbourne, Kentucky improved on 0 of 9 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 8 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+1.3×3.4× → 4.7×

All 9 measures

Change of every measure of Hurstbourne, Kentucky between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	23.5 min2015-2019	26.2 min2020-2024	+2.6 min	Within the margin of error	22%
Bachelor's degree or higher	69.5%2015-2019	70.8%2020-2024	+1.2 points	Within the margin of error	36%
Broadband subscriptions	89.2%2015-2019	92.3%2020-2024	+3.1 points	Within the margin of error	20%
Effective property tax rate	0.86%2015-2019	0.90%2020-2024	+0 points	Within the margin of error	12%
High school diploma or higher	98.3%2015-2019	96.0%2020-2024	−2.3 points	Within the margin of error	14%
Home price to income ratio	3.4×2015-2019	4.7×2020-2024	+1.3×	Declined	14%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4962015-2019	0.4762020-2024	−0.020	Within the margin of error	68%
Median household income	$123,5212015-2019	$116,0942020-2024	−6%	Within the margin of error	4%
Rent as share of income	14.9%2015-2019	19.2%2020-2024	+4.3 points	Within the margin of error	26%

“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 Hurstbourne, Kentucky five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Hurstbourne, 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, Hurstbourne, Kentucky itself moved −9.3 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

4,702 residents (±16)

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

1,798 households (±229)

Hurstbourne, Kentucky
Kentucky share

Under $25k12%†210
$25k–50k11%†191
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

1,798 households (±229)

Hurstbourne, Kentucky
Kentucky share

Own57%1,030
Rent43%768

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

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Getting to work

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

How people get to work

1,887 workers (±279)

Hurstbourne, Kentucky
Kentucky share

Drive alone66%1,247
Carpool7.9%†150
Public transit0.0%0

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 Jefferson County, the county holding most of Hurstbourne's residents.

Jefferson County has 20,164 employer establishments, 257 for every 10,000 residents (1.04× the US rate of 248; 1.24× Kentucky's), with 470,153 paid employees at an average annual pay of $64,489. The Census Bureau also counts 75,642 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 20,164; 75,642 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 257; US 248 · Kentucky 207
Paid employees: 470,153
Average annual pay: $64,489; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	2,017	25.7	1.23×About typical	34,809	$74,811	3,268
Restaurants and other eating places	1,462	18.6	1.01×About typical	34,189	$22,621	527
Lessors of real estate	1,056	13.5	1.09×About typical	4,809	$62,984	7,536
Specialty trade contractors	998	12.7	0.82×About typical	14,830	$71,884	3,809
Offices of physicians	743	9.5	1.46×More than typical	12,800	$112,454	665
Limited-service restaurants	690	8.8	1.10×About typical	15,770	$19,191	237
Full-service restaurants	620	7.9	1.03×About typical	16,456	$26,101	211
Offices of other health practitioners	560	7.1	1.17×About typical	5,317	$46,471	1,494
Legal services	500	6.4	1.19×About typical	3,655	$77,826	770
Insurance agencies and brokerages	499	6.4	1.45×More than typical	4,766	$88,867	935
Services to buildings and dwellings	496	6.3	0.94×About typical	5,882	$33,509	5,356
Real estate agents and brokers	454	5.8	1.19×About typical	931	$67,175	1,766

Rank places for an industry Open Jefferson County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 784,607 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 $1.1B of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Hurstbourne, Kentucky: $228,732 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $1.1B; +52% vs FY2025
Per resident: $228,732; US $1,994
Sole-source: 0.0%; US 30%
Single offer: 0.0%; 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

Defense Health Agency$1.1B99%
Department of the Army$5.7M0.5%
Department of Veterans Affairs$2.2M0.2%
Department of the Navy$45.7K0.0%
Missile Defense Agency$34.3K0.0%
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission$9,9690.0%

Top recipients

HUMANA GOVERNMENT BUSINESS INC$1.1B99%
WALSH - TURNER JV II$5.6M0.5%
SDV OFFICE SYSTEMS LLC$2.2M0.2%
INFOBEYOND TECHNOLOGY LLC$80K0.0%
GOLDENWOLF - CRAWFORD CONSULTING SERVICES JOINT VENTURE LLC$56.5K0.0%

Spending by fiscal year

141.9KFY2017
119.3KFY2018
1MFY2019
662.4KFY2020
160.4MFY2021
1.9MFY2022
16.1MFY2023
14.4MFY2024

Top industries (NAICS)

Insurance carriers · 5241$1.1B99%
Nonresidential building construction · 2362$5.6M0.5%
Office furniture (including fixtures) manufacturing · 3372$2.2M0.2%
Scientific research and development services · 5417$80K0.0%
Management, scientific, and technical consulting services · 5416$53K0.0%
Medical equipment and supplies manufacturing · 3391$21.5K

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 Hurstbourne, Kentucky, so they do not add up across cities.

Hurstbourne, Kentucky's figures are part of those of Jefferson County, KY ($6.4B in FY2026), never added to them: 17% of that total.

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

See federal money in Jefferson 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.

Hurstbourne, Kentucky is split between congressional districts: each representative is shown with the share of its residents in their district (current boundaries).

House

Senate

County

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

Jefferson County49100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN53

Other cities and towns in Jefferson 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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