Scores by category

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

Safety69#4,910/15,637
Economy18#12,884/15,631
Housing100#54/14,977
Health5#14,856/15,609
Healthcare40#9,444/15,650
Environment68#5,018/15,453
Education25#11,811/15,649
Infrastructure67#5,184/15,650
Community10#14,103/15,651
Leisure & amenities36#10,000/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Rent as share of income · low19.7%
94/100Kentucky 28.1%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071
Homicide rate · low0.0 /100k
94/100Kentucky 5.5 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataMontgomery County value
Rent-burdened households · low23.9%
93/100Kentucky 45.4%United States 51.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25070High uncertainty
Child care cost burden · low22.3%
87/100Kentucky 25.2%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMontgomery County value
Grocery stores · high2.4 /10k
87/100Kentucky 1.6 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsMontgomery County value
Effective property tax rate · low0.51%
87/100Kentucky 0.75%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090

Weaknesses

Access to exercise opportunities · low32.2%
3/100Kentucky 69.8%United States 84.5%2022 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMontgomery County value
Depression · high29.8%
6/100Kentucky 27.4%United States 20.7%2022Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Premature death · high13,907 /100k
6/100Kentucky 11,364 /100kUnited States 8,123 /100k2021-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMontgomery County value
Preventable hospital stays · high4,227 /100k
6/100Kentucky 3,415 /100kUnited States 2,769 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMontgomery County value
Life expectancy · low71.7 yrs
7/100Kentucky 73.6 yrsUnited States 77.6 yrs2021-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMontgomery County value
Injury deaths · high136 /100k
7/100Kentucky 115 /100kUnited States 87 /100k2019-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMontgomery County value

Trends

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

PopulationFalling
1,973 (2015-2019) → 1,651 (2020-2024)
−16%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
75.9% (2015-2019) → 95.3% (2020-2024)
+19 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
43.2% (2015-2019) → 23.9% (2020-2024)
−19 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Rent as share of incomeImproving
28.0% (2015-2019) → 19.7% (2020-2024)
−8.3 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Child poverty rateImproving
22.4% (2015-2019) → 14.4% (2020-2024)
−7.9 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Uninsured residents (under 65)Worsening
2.7% (2015-2019) → 9.2% (2020-2024)
+6.4 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%

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, Jeffersonville, Kentucky improved on 3 of 10 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 7 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.

Improved3

Broadband+19 points75.9% → 95.3%
Rent / income−8.3 points28.0% → 19.7%
Bachelor's++5.3 points9.2% → 14.5%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 10 measures

Change of every measure of Jeffersonville, Kentucky between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	27.2 min2015-2019	32.2 min2020-2024	+5.0 min	Within the margin of error	10%
Bachelor's degree or higher	9.2%2015-2019	14.5%2020-2024	+5.3 points	Improved	70%
Broadband subscriptions	75.9%2015-2019	95.3%2020-2024	+19 points	Improved	89%
Effective property tax rate	0.72%2015-2019	0.51%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Within the margin of error	61%
High school diploma or higher	84.5%2015-2019	83.4%2020-2024	−1.1 points	Within the margin of error	22%
Home price to income ratio	2.1×2015-2019	2.5×2020-2024	+0.4×	Within the margin of error	54%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4082015-2019	0.3742020-2024	−0.034	Within the margin of error	76%
Median household income	$43,5272015-2019	$56,2502020-2024	+29%	Within the margin of error	54%
Poverty rate	15.1%2015-2019	16.1%2020-2024	+1 points	Within the margin of error	34%
Rent as share of income	28.0%2015-2019	19.7%2020-2024	−8.3 points	Improved	91%

“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 Jeffersonville, Kentucky five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Jeffersonville, 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, Jeffersonville, Kentucky itself moved +10.3 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

1,651 residents (±427)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†
50–59†
40–49†
30–39†
20–29†
10–19†
Under 10†

Share of all residents, each sex

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.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B01001View table on data.census.gov

Race and Hispanic origin

1,651 residents (±427)

Jeffersonville, Kentucky
Kentucky share

White93%1,532
Black0.0%0
Hispanic or Latino5.1%†84

Education

1,062 residents (±261)

Jeffersonville, Kentucky
Kentucky share

No high school diploma17%†176
High school or GED39%414
Some college17%†185

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Income

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

Household income

590 households (±135)

Jeffersonville, Kentucky
Kentucky share

Under $25k22%†127
$25k–50k23%†134
$50k–75k24%†143
$75k–100k12%†72
$100k–150k15%†89
$150k–200k3.1%†18
$200k or more1.2%†7

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: $50k–75k (+11.4 points).

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

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B19001View table on data.census.gov

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Homes

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

Owners and renters

590 households (±135)

Jeffersonville, Kentucky
Kentucky share

Own67%397
Rent33%†193

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.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B25003View table on data.census.gov

Rent paid

155 households (±70)

Jeffersonville, Kentucky
Kentucky share

Under $75037%†58
$750–1,00053%†82
$1,000–1,5009.7%†

Home values

397 homes (±99)

Jeffersonville, Kentucky
Kentucky share

Under $150k53%†212
$150k–250k35%†137
$250k–400k4.0%†16

Age of homes

673 homes (±158)

Jeffersonville, Kentucky
Kentucky share

2010 or later5.1%†34
2000–200913%†87
1980–199944%†293

Size of homes

673 homes (±158)

Jeffersonville, Kentucky
Kentucky share

Studio0.7%†5
1 bedroom1.3%†9
2 bedrooms23%†157

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Getting to work

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

How people get to work

591 workers (±156)

Jeffersonville, Kentucky
Kentucky share

Drive alone76%†447
Carpool13%†78
Public transit1.0%†6
Walk1.5%†9
Bike0.0%0
Work from home7.8%†46
Other0.8%†5

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.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B08301View table on data.census.gov

Time to get to work

545 workers (±144)

Jeffersonville, Kentucky
Kentucky share

Under 15 min12%†64
15–29 min43%†234
30–44 min13%†70

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

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 Mount Sterling, KY

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 Montgomery County, the county holding most of Jeffersonville's residents.

Montgomery County has 560 employer establishments, 196 for every 10,000 residents (0.79× the US rate of 248; 0.95× Kentucky's), with 9,707 paid employees at an average annual pay of $43,722. The Census Bureau also counts 1,932 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 560; 1,932 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 196; US 248 · Kentucky 207
Paid employees: 9,707
Average annual pay: $43,722; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	61	21.4	1.03×About typical	529	$62,212	61
Restaurants and other eating places	35	12.3	0.67×Fewer than typical	826	$19,178	9
Specialty trade contractors	30	10.5	0.68×Fewer than typical	223	$53,278	223
Religious organizations	21	7.4	1.33×More than typical	88	$29,057	—
Building equipment contractors	20	7	1.16×About typical	93	$37,656	51
Gasoline stations	20	7	2.16×More than typical	198	$19,379	—
Limited-service restaurants	19	6.7	0.83×About typical	502	$17,349	—
Offices of physicians	19	6.7	1.03×About typical	229	$70,454	7
Clothing and accessories stores	17	6	1.64×More than typical	153	$13,608	22
Lessors of real estate	16	5.6	0.46×Fewer than typical	27	$26,556	179
Outpatient care centers	16	5.6	3.05×More than typical	125	$48,536	—
Full-service restaurants	14	4.9	0.64×Fewer than typical	317	$21,956	4

Rank places for an industry Open Montgomery County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 28,534 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 Jeffersonville, 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

261.6KFY2022
427.3KFY2023

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

Jeffersonville, Kentucky's figures are part of those of Montgomery County, KY ($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: Jeffersonville is mostly in Montgomery County.

See federal money in Montgomery 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.

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

House

Andy BarrR-KY-6 · 100% of residentsWith party 99%Missed 7.1%

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.

Montgomery County41100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Mount Sterling, KY20

Other cities and towns in Montgomery 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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