Scores by category

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

Safety67#5,206/15,637
Economy10#14,111/15,631
Housing81#2,856/14,977
Health5#14,883/15,609
Healthcare45#8,673/15,650
Environment51#7,523/15,453
Education11#13,864/15,649
Infrastructure22#12,208/15,650
Community29#11,185/15,651
Leisure & amenities79#3,297/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Maysville, Kentucky ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Mason 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 Amtrak station · low4 mi
98/100Kentucky 78 miUnited States 43 mi2026Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauMason County value
Restaurants and bars · high17.7 /10k
97/100Kentucky 8.1 /10kUnited States 9.0 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsMason County value
Homicide rate · low0.0 /100k
94/100Kentucky 5.5 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataMason County value
Child care cost burden · low21.5%
90/100Kentucky 25.2%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMason County value
Social associations · high14.3 /10k
88/100Kentucky 10.3 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMason County value
Drinking water violations · low0
86/100Kentucky 0United States 02024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMason County value

Weaknesses

Mental health care shortage · high21.0
0/100Kentucky 14.9United States 9.9Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationMason County value
Adult smoking · high23.1%
4/100Kentucky 17.6%United States 16.1%2022University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Median household income · low$39,013
5/100Kentucky $64,481United States $81,6042020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19013
Income inequality (Gini index) · high0.518
5/100Kentucky 0.477United States 0.4832020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19083
Comfortable days · low22.7%
6/100Kentucky 23.7%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationMason County value
Drug overdose deaths · high33.2 /100k
6/100Kentucky 23.1 /100kUnited States 18.4 /100k2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimateMason County value

Trends

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

Broadband subscriptionsImproving
72.6% (2015-2019) → 84.7% (2020-2024)
+12 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Uninsured residents (under 65)Improving
10.1% (2015-2019) → 6.2% (2020-2024)
−3.9 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
46.7% (2015-2019) → 43.3% (2020-2024)
−3.5 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Average commute timeWorsening
20.5 min (2015-2019) → 23.5 min (2020-2024)
+15%5 yearsCensus table B08013US 26.9 min → 26.4 min
Unemployment rateImproving
6.7% (2015-2019) → 4.4% (2020-2024)
−2.3 pts5 yearsCensus table B23025US 3.7% → 4.0%
Median household incomeImproving
$35,102 (2015-2019) → $39,013 (2020-2024)
+11%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, Maysville, Kentucky improved on 1 of 14 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 13 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

Broadband+12 points72.6% → 84.7%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 14 measures

Change of every measure of Maysville, Kentucky between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	20.5 min2015-2019	23.5 min2020-2024	+3.0 min	Within the margin of error	20%
Bachelor's degree or higher	19.5%2015-2019	19.9%2020-2024	+0.4 points	Within the margin of error	30%
Broadband subscriptions	72.6%2015-2019	84.7%2020-2024	+12 points	Improved	69%
Child poverty rate	34.4%2015-2019	33.6%2020-2024	−0.8 points	Within the margin of error	49%
Effective property tax rate	0.77%2015-2019	0.77%2020-2024	+0 points	Within the margin of error	15%
High school diploma or higher	86.5%2015-2019	85.8%2020-2024	−0.7 points	Within the margin of error	25%
Home price to income ratio	3.8×2015-2019	3.9×2020-2024	+0.1×	Within the margin of error	73%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.5412015-2019	0.5182020-2024	−0.023	Within the margin of error	70%
Median household income	$35,1022015-2019	$39,0132020-2024	+11%	Within the margin of error	18%
Poverty rate	23.4%2015-2019	24.3%2020-2024	+0.9 points	Within the margin of error	35%
Rent as share of income	28.5%2015-2019	27.3%2020-2024	−1.2 points	Within the margin of error	64%
Rent-burdened households	46.7%2015-2019	43.3%2020-2024	−3.5 points	Within the margin of error	68%
Unemployment rate	6.7%2015-2019	4.4%2020-2024	−2.3 points	Within the margin of error	84%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	10.1%2015-2019	6.2%2020-2024	−3.9 points	Within the margin of error	82%

“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 Maysville, Kentucky five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Maysville, 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, Maysville, Kentucky itself moved −1.2 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

8,737 residents (±20)

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

8,737 residents (±20)

Maysville, Kentucky
Kentucky share

White84%7,349
Black7.6%662
Hispanic or Latino3.7%327
Asian0.1%†10
American Indian and Alaska Native0.0%0
Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander0.0%0
Other or two or more races4.5%†389

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Asian (−1.5 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 B03002View table on data.census.gov

Education

6,170 residents (±268)

Maysville, Kentucky
Kentucky share

No high school diploma14%†879
High school or GED32%1,987
Some college22%1,338
Associate degree12%738
Bachelor's degree11%654
Graduate degree9.3%†574

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 B15003View 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.

Income

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

Household income

3,983 households (±273)

Maysville, Kentucky
Kentucky share

Under $25k37%1,482
$25k–50k19%776
$50k–75k18%715
$75k–100k10.0%†397
$100k–150k8.9%354
$150k–200k3.8%†152
$200k or more2.7%†107

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: $50k–75k (+8.6 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

3,983 households (±273)

Maysville, Kentucky
Kentucky share

Own52%2,082
Rent48%1,901

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

Table view

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

Rent paid

1,852 households (±245)

Maysville, Kentucky
Kentucky share

Under $75056%1,042
$750–1,00035%†643
$1,000–1,5009.0%†167

Home values

2,082 homes (±226)

Maysville, Kentucky
Kentucky share

Under $150k50%1,035
$150k–250k27%558
$250k–400k18%†379

Age of homes

4,617 homes (±225)

Maysville, Kentucky
Kentucky share

2010 or later4.0%†185
2000–20097.8%†361
1980–199925%1,167

Size of homes

4,617 homes (±225)

Maysville, Kentucky
Kentucky share

Studio1.9%†88
1 bedroom25%1,137
2 bedrooms26%1,191

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

3,683 workers (±342)

Maysville, Kentucky
Kentucky share

Drive alone86%3,168
Carpool4.0%†148
Public transit0.2%†7
Walk3.4%†127
Bike0.0%0
Work from home6.3%†233
Other0.0%0

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Carpool (−7.9 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 B08301View table on data.census.gov

Time to get to work

3,450 workers (±341)

Maysville, Kentucky
Kentucky share

Under 15 min46%1,595
15–29 min34%1,176
30–44 min3.1%†106

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

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 Mason County, the county holding most of Maysville's residents.

Mason County has 404 employer establishments, 239 for every 10,000 residents (0.96× the US rate of 248; 1.15× Kentucky's), with 6,951 paid employees at an average annual pay of $48,396. The Census Bureau also counts 1,209 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 404; 1,209 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 239; US 248 · Kentucky 207
Paid employees: 6,951
Average annual pay: $48,396; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	39	23.1	1.11×About typical	775	$58,364	42
Restaurants and other eating places	38	22.5	1.23×About typical	735	$17,076	5
Full-service restaurants	19	11.3	1.47×More than typical	403	$17,074	—
Religious organizations	19	11.3	2.03×More than typical	62	$22,145	—
Limited-service restaurants	18	10.7	1.33×More than typical	326	$17,089	3
Specialty trade contractors	17	10.1	0.65×Fewer than typical	203	$57,448	155
Gasoline stations	15	8.9	2.74×More than typical	109	$20,954	—
Offices of other health practitioners	13	7.7	1.27×More than typical	46	$42,804	18
Banks and credit unions	11	6.5	2.02×More than typical	75	$50,360	—
Building equipment contractors	9	5.3	0.89×Too few to compare	61	$43,951	23
Personal care services	9	5.3	1.12×Too few to compare	51	$16,882	63
Automotive repair and maintenance	8	4.7	0.94×Too few to compare	27	$33,296	38

Rank places for an industry Open Mason County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 16,875 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 $9,641 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Maysville, Kentucky: $1.10 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $9,641; −35% vs FY2025
Per resident: $1.10; US $1,994
Sole-source: 99%; 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

Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement$9,36497%
Department of the Navy$1942.0%
Department of the Army$82.600.9%

Top recipients

CARLSON SOFTWARE INC$9,55899%
FOX, WOOD & WOOD$82.600.9%

Spending by fiscal year

6.6KFY2017
7.3KFY2018
8KFY2019
8KFY2020
11.4KFY2021
8.9KFY2022
12.6KFY2023
26KFY2024

Top industries (NAICS)

Computer systems design and related services · 5415$9,36497%
Software publishers · 5132$1942.0%
Legal services · 5411$82.600.9%

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

Maysville, Kentucky's figures are part of those of Mason County, KY ($69.6K in FY2026), never added to them: 14% of that total.

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

See federal money in Mason 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.

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

House

Thomas MassieR-KY-4 · 100% of residentsWith party 85%Missed 5.9%

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.

Mason County37100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Mason 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
Building Permits SurveyU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-08
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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