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Cost of living in Olive Hill, Kentucky

Olive Hill, Kentucky has about 1,636 people. Typical rent is $542 a month, including utilities, and a typical household earns $70,682 a year. Both figures are Census 2020–2024 medians, not a listing or your pay. This site does not approve or deny benefits. A missing figure stays blank. We do not guess it.

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Typical rent is $542 a month.

Olive Hill is a city in Kentucky. That rent number includes utilities. A typical household earns $70,682 a year.

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People
1,636
Census average, 2020–2024
Typical rent
$542
Median gross rent, includes utilities
Typical pay
$70,682
Median household income, yearly
Typical home
$136,700
Median home value
2-bedroom fair rent
$909
Carter County, KY HUD Metro FMR Area

Olive Hill, Kentucky has about 1,636 people. That count is a 2020–2024 Census average, not a headcount from one day.

A typical home is worth about $136,700.

HUD's fair-market rent for a 2-bedroom in Carter County is $909 a month. That is the county number, not an apartment listing in Olive Hill. It runs from October 2026 through September 2027.

In the Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH metro area, prices sit at 88.4 when the U.S. average is 100. That is a 2024 BEA index.

Kentucky taxes wages. A typical combined sales tax is 6.0% as of January 1, 2026. That mix is statewide, not Olive Hill's exact store tax.

Some places in Kentucky add a local wage tax. In 2023 the state average was about 0.93% of income. That is not a Olive Hill bill.

In July 2026, a typical Kentucky home paid 13.81¢ per kilowatt-hour. That is a state average from EIA, not Olive Hill's bill.

EIA did not publish a 2025 all-grades gas price for Kentucky in the table we use.

Among 216 places we list in Kentucky with a rent figure, 202 have higher typical rent than Olive Hill.

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Census 2020-2024. HUD rents for October 2026–September 2027. BEA prices for 2024. Taxes as of January 1, 2026. Checked 2026-10-16. 15,000 places are in this guide.