City · Webster County, Kentucky

Sebree, Kentucky

Sebree is a city in Webster County, Kentucky, part of the Henderson, KY metro area. It has 1,825 residents. Sebree, Kentucky has a quality-of-life score of 21 out of 100 (low), ranking #12,428 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Kentucky it ranks #175 of 243 cities and towns. It ranks best on pharmacies (high), violent crime rate (low) and job growth (high). It ranks worst on access to exercise opportunities (low), arts, entertainment and recreation (low) and primary care physicians (low).

21Low

Quality-of-life score: #12,428 of 15,651 cities and towns
Kentucky: #175 of 243 in KY
Population: 1,825 (2020-2024)
Land area: 3 mi²
Density: 621.3 /mi²
FIPS code: 2169222

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.

Safety83#2,723/15,637
Economy56#6,895/15,631
Housing91#1,291/14,977
Health8#14,380/15,609
Healthcare2#15,414/15,650
Environment6#14,454/15,453
Education7#14,508/15,649
Infrastructure32#10,610/15,650
Community26#11,635/15,651
Leisure & amenities11#13,951/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Pharmacies · high3.9 /10k
99/100Kentucky 2.4 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsWebster County value
Violent crime rate · low33 /100k
99/100Kentucky 212 /100kUnited States 328 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationCovers part of the area: some reporting agencies or member counties have no figureWebster County value
Job growth · high4.6%
97/100Kentucky -0.4%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataWebster County value
Public libraries · high3.1 /10k
96/100Kentucky 0.6 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesWebster County value
Social associations · high17.3 /10k
95/100Kentucky 10.3 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteWebster County value
Unemployment rate · low0.5%
95/100Kentucky 4.6%United States 4.3%2020-2024U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Census table B23025High uncertainty

Weaknesses

Access to exercise opportunities · low25.5%
2/100Kentucky 69.8%United States 84.5%2022 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteWebster County value
Arts, entertainment and recreation · low0.8 /10k
2/100Kentucky 4.4 /10kUnited States 5.5 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsWebster County value
Primary care physicians · low16 /100k
3/100Kentucky 63 /100kUnited States 76 /100k2022University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteWebster County value
Dentists · low16 /100k
3/100Kentucky 67 /100kUnited States 75 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteWebster County value
Public EV charging ports · low0.0 /10k
3/100Kentucky 2.6 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergyWebster County value
Mental health providers · low39 /100k
4/100Kentucky 329 /100kUnited States 348 /100k2025University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteWebster County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
1,475 (2015-2019) → 1,825 (2020-2024)
+24%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Child poverty rateImproving
44.7% (2015-2019) → 0.3% (2020-2024)
−44 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
61.1% (2015-2019) → 94.2% (2020-2024)
+33 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
49.7% (2015-2019) → 25.9% (2020-2024)
−24 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Poverty rateImproving
29.1% (2015-2019) → 6.9% (2020-2024)
−22 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
New homes permittedWorsening
0.6 /1k (2021) → 0.0 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
−100%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k

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, Sebree, Kentucky improved on 3 of 11 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 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.

Improved3

Broadband+33 points61.1% → 94.2%
Household income+75%$33,571 → $58,707
Inequality−0.0950.450 → 0.356

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 11 measures

Change of every measure of Sebree, Kentucky between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	20.4 min2015-2019	21.5 min2020-2024	+1.2 min	Within the margin of error	34%
Bachelor's degree or higher	7.5%2015-2019	9.0%2020-2024	+1.5 points	Within the margin of error	39%
Broadband subscriptions	61.1%2015-2019	94.2%2020-2024	+33 points	Improved	99%
Effective property tax rate	0.77%2015-2019	0.90%2020-2024	+0.1 points	Within the margin of error	5%
High school diploma or higher	70.9%2015-2019	75.6%2020-2024	+4.7 points	Within the margin of error	80%
Home price to income ratio	2.3×2015-2019	1.8×2020-2024	−0.5×	Within the margin of error	93%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4502015-2019	0.3562020-2024	−0.095	Improved	95%
Median household income	$33,5712015-2019	$58,7072020-2024	+75%	Improved	96%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	29.8%2015-2019	17.9%2020-2024	−12 points	Within the margin of error	95%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	13.6%2015-2019	17.4%2020-2024	+3.8 points	Within the margin of error	15%

“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 Sebree, Kentucky five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Sebree, 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, Sebree, Kentucky itself moved +21.8 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

1,825 residents (±277)

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

530 households (±94)

Sebree, Kentucky
Kentucky share

Under $25k14%†73
$25k–50k31%†164
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

530 households (±94)

Sebree, Kentucky
Kentucky share

Own61%323
Rent39%†207

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

751 workers (±177)

Sebree, Kentucky
Kentucky share

Drive alone71%535
Carpool24%†183
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 Henderson, 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 Webster County, the county holding most of Sebree's residents.

Webster County has 202 employer establishments, 158 for every 10,000 residents (0.64× the US rate of 248; 0.76× Kentucky's), with 1,822 paid employees at an average annual pay of $47,745. The Census Bureau also counts 696 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 202; 696 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 158; US 248 · Kentucky 207
Paid employees: 1,822
Average annual pay: $47,745; US $68,342

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

Religious organizations	22	17.3	3.11×More than typical	56	$14,482	—
Truck transportation	16	12.6	2.48×More than typical	121	$62,182	13
Ambulatory health care services	13	10.2	0.49×Fewer than typical	114	$42,649	15
Restaurants and other eating places	12	9.4	0.51×Fewer than typical	130	$12,162	8
Specialty trade contractors	12	9.4	0.61×Fewer than typical	270	$82,530	73
General merchandise stores	9	7.1	4.00×Too few to compare	52	$21,346	5
Banks and credit unions	8	6.3	1.94×Too few to compare	82	$80,268	—
Gasoline stations	8	6.3	1.94×Too few to compare	54	$18,278	—
Health and personal care stores	7	5.5	2.07×Too few to compare	56	$48,446	7
Limited-service restaurants	7	5.5	0.68×Too few to compare	102	$11,167	5
Pharmacies and drug stores	6	4.7	3.79×Too few to compare	55	$48,964	—
Building equipment contractors	5	3.9	0.65×Too few to compare	217	$91,217	18

Rank places for an industry Open Webster County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 12,746 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 Sebree, 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

1.9KFY2017
2.8KFY2018
1.9KFY2019
-364.8FY2020
331.7FY2021
1.2KFY2022

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

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

See federal money in Webster 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.

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

House

James ComerR-KY-1 · 100% of residentsWith party 99%Missed 2.4%

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.

Webster County19100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Henderson, KY26

Other cities and towns in Webster 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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