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Cost of living in Taylorsville, Kentucky

Taylorsville, Kentucky has about 1,496 people. Typical rent is $939 a month, including utilities, and a typical household earns $43,259 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 $939 a month.

Taylorsville is a city in Kentucky. That rent number includes utilities. A typical household earns $43,259 a year.

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People
1,496
Census average, 2020–2024
Typical rent
$939
Median gross rent, includes utilities
Typical pay
$43,259
Median household income, yearly
Typical home
$164,200
Median home value
2-bedroom fair rent
$1,276
Louisville, KY-IN HUD Metro FMR Area
Gas
$4.237
Midwest (PADD 2), week of October 12, 2026

Taylorsville, Kentucky has about 1,496 people. That count is a 2020–2024 Census average, not a headcount from one day.

A typical home is worth about $164,200.

HUD's fair-market rent for a 2-bedroom in Spencer County is $1,276 a month. That is the county number, not an apartment listing in Taylorsville. It runs from October 2026 through September 2027.

In the Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN metro area, prices sit at 93.1 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 Taylorsville'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 Taylorsville bill.

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

EIA does not publish a Kentucky gasoline price. For the week of October 12, 2026, the Midwest (PADD 2) all-grades price was $4.237 a gallon. At 12,000 miles a year and 25 mpg, the index counts that as $2,033.76 a year. Those miles are our standard, not a Census figure, and every town in Kentucky shares this price.

Among 216 places we list in Kentucky with a rent figure, 84 have higher typical rent than Taylorsville.

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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.