City · Hancock County, Kentucky

Lewisport, Kentucky

Lewisport is a city in Hancock County, Kentucky. It has 2,057 residents. Lewisport, Kentucky has a quality-of-life score of 32 out of 100 (low), ranking #10,605 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Kentucky it ranks #109 of 243 cities and towns. It ranks best on property crime rate (low), public libraries (high) and average weekly wage (high). It ranks worst on pharmacies (low), access to exercise opportunities (low) and arts, entertainment and recreation (low).

32Low

Quality-of-life score: #10,605 of 15,651 cities and towns
Kentucky: #109 of 243 in KY
Population: 2,057 (2020-2024)
Land area: 1 mi²
Density: 2,159.4 /mi²
FIPS code: 2145136

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 71 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.

Safety85#2,283/15,637
Economy37#9,843/15,631
Housing98#318/14,977
Health23#11,974/15,609
Healthcare26#11,583/15,650
Environment36#9,962/15,453
Education26#11,534/15,649
Infrastructure22#12,225/15,650
Community37#9,832/15,651
Leisure & amenities1#15,418/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Property crime rate · low296 /100k
97/100Kentucky 1,262 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2024Federal Bureau of InvestigationCovers part of the area: some reporting agencies or member counties have no figureHancock County value
Public libraries · high3.3 /10k
97/100Kentucky 0.6 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesHancock County value
Average weekly wage · high$1,744
94/100Kentucky $1,202United States $1,5142025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsHancock County value
Homicide rate · low0.0 /100k
94/100Kentucky 5.5 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataHancock County value
Violent crime rate · low75 /100k
91/100Kentucky 212 /100kUnited States 328 /100k2024Federal Bureau of InvestigationCovers part of the area: some reporting agencies or member counties have no figureHancock County value
Child care cost burden · low21.6%
90/100Kentucky 25.2%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteHancock County value

Weaknesses

Pharmacies · low0.0 /10k
1/100Kentucky 2.4 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsHancock County value
Access to exercise opportunities · low25.2%
2/100Kentucky 69.8%United States 84.5%2022 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteHancock County value
Arts, entertainment and recreation · low1.1 /10k
3/100Kentucky 4.4 /10kUnited States 5.5 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsHancock County value
Public EV charging ports · low0.0 /10k
3/100Kentucky 2.6 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergyHancock County value
Gyms and fitness centers · low0.0 /10k
4/100Kentucky 1.0 /10kUnited States 1.3 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsHancock County value
New business applications · low7.7 /1k
5/100Kentucky 13.9 /1kUnited States 16.6 /1k2025U.S. Census BureauHancock County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
1,898 (2015-2019) → 2,057 (2020-2024)
+8.4%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Child poverty rateWorsening
25.9% (2015-2019) → 35.1% (2020-2024)
+9.2 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
1.7× (2015-2019) → 2.5× (2020-2024)
+43%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Rent as share of incomeImproving
27.3% (2015-2019) → 18.9% (2020-2024)
−8.4 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Average commute timeWorsening
20.4 min (2015-2019) → 27.2 min (2020-2024)
+33%5 yearsCensus table B08013US 26.9 min → 26.4 min
Median household incomeImproving
$47,344 (2015-2019) → $55,873 (2020-2024)
+18%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604

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, Lewisport, Kentucky improved on 1 of 14 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 12 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.

Improved1

Household income+18%$47,344 → $55,873

Declined1

Price / income+0.7×1.7× → 2.5×

All 14 measures

Change of every measure of Lewisport, Kentucky between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	20.4 min2015-2019	27.2 min2020-2024	+6.8 min	Within the margin of error	6%
Bachelor's degree or higher	15.2%2015-2019	16.1%2020-2024	+0.9 points	Within the margin of error	34%
Broadband subscriptions	87.5%2015-2019	87.6%2020-2024	+0.1 points	Within the margin of error	8%
Child poverty rate	25.9%2015-2019	35.1%2020-2024	+9.2 points	Within the margin of error	13%
Effective property tax rate	0.79%2015-2019	0.69%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	36%
High school diploma or higher	87.8%2015-2019	88.4%2020-2024	+0.6 points	Within the margin of error	41%
Home price to income ratio	1.7×2015-2019	2.5×2020-2024	+0.7×	Declined	34%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3702015-2019	0.3902020-2024	+0.019	Within the margin of error	34%
Median household income	$47,3442015-2019	$55,8732020-2024	+18%	Improved	29%
Poverty rate	19.7%2015-2019	21.3%2020-2024	+1.6 points	Within the margin of error	29%
Rent as share of income	27.3%2015-2019	18.9%2020-2024	−8.4 points	Within the margin of error	91%
Rent-burdened households	42.9%2015-2019	39.7%2020-2024	−3.2 points	Within the margin of error	67%
Unemployment rate	6.2%2015-2019	5.0%2020-2024	−1.2 points	Within the margin of error	72%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	5.6%2015-2019	4.9%2020-2024	−0.7 points	Within the margin of error	55%

“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 Lewisport, Kentucky five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Lewisport, 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, Lewisport, Kentucky itself moved −7.9 points in standing on average over the same 10 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

2,057 residents (±296)

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

799 households (±120)

Lewisport, Kentucky
Kentucky share

Under $25k25%†203
$25k–50k15%†116
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

799 households (±120)

Lewisport, Kentucky
Kentucky share

Own59%474
Rent41%325

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

904 workers (±165)

Lewisport, Kentucky
Kentucky share

Drive alone88%792
Carpool6.5%†59
Public transit0.0%0

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 Hancock County, the county holding most of Lewisport's residents.

Hancock County has 136 employer establishments, 152 for every 10,000 residents (0.61× the US rate of 248; 0.73× Kentucky's), with 3,372 paid employees at an average annual pay of $78,289. The Census Bureau also counts 483 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 136; 483 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 152; US 248 · Kentucky 207
Paid employees: 3,372
Average annual pay: $78,289; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	10	11.2	0.54×Fewer than typical	53	$35,642	13
Religious organizations	10	11.2	2.02×More than typical	40	$15,775	—
Gasoline stations	8	9	2.76×Too few to compare	68	$25,544	—
Specialty trade contractors	8	9	0.58×Too few to compare	80	$69,550	54
Restaurants and other eating places	7	7.8	0.43×Too few to compare	74	$9,662	—
Banks and credit unions	6	6.7	2.08×Too few to compare	37	$46,946	—
Offices of other health practitioners	6	6.7	1.11×Too few to compare	25	$33,520	8
Construction of buildings	5	5.6	0.74×Too few to compare	7	$41,286	21
General merchandise stores	5	5.6	3.17×Too few to compare	30	$21,100	—
Truck transportation	5	5.6	1.11×Too few to compare	168	$59,833	13
Automotive repair and maintenance	4	4.5	0.89×Too few to compare	13	$28,769	13
Limited-service restaurants	4	4.5	0.56×Too few to compare	49	$7,551	—

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 8,930 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 Lewisport, Kentucky: $0 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $0; −100% vs FY2025
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

115.8FY2025

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

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

See federal money in Hancock 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.

Lewisport, 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.

Hancock County42100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Hancock County

Largest first.

Hawesville281,188

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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