Leitchfield
Where the jobs, the schools and most of the county's sales volume are. Steadier and faster-moving than the lake side of the county.
Leitchfield · Clarkson · Caneyville · Millwood · Rough River Lake
Grayson
County, Kentucky
Grayson is the land county. There are almost as many land listings here as houses, and the houses for sale are priced further above recent sale prices than in any of the other three counties.
Updated September 25, 2026 · MLS data through August 2026 · refreshed monthly
How it compares
Grayson next to
Grayson next to
the other three
How long a house takes to sell
Average days on market over the year.
How far sellers came down
The average gap between a house’s first asking price and the price it sold for.
Months to sell every house listed
At the past year’s pace, if nothing new came on the market.
Months to sell every land listing
Drawn on the same scale as the houses chart, so the bars compare directly.
Source: Greater Louisville Association of REALTORS® MLS, residential and land property types, Breckinridge, Meade, Grayson and Hardin counties, September 2025 through August 2026, pulled September 25, 2026. Data deemed reliable but not guaranteed. GLAR listings only — other associations, including the Heart of Kentucky Association of REALTORS®, also serve these counties, and their listings are not counted here.
Houses · 12 months ending August 2026
What the MLS actually shows
195Homes sold
in twelve months
in twelve months
392Homes listed
in the same year
in the same year
126Active listings
as of August
as of August
7.8 moSupply at the
current sale pace
current sale pace
70 daysAverage days
on market
on market
91.8%Of the original
asking price
asking price
Source: Greater Louisville Association of REALTORS® MLS, residential property, Grayson County, September 2025 through August 2026, pulled September 25, 2026. Figures are twelve-month totals or averages: days on market over every sale, price ratios over the twelve monthly figures. Data deemed reliable but not guaranteed. GLAR listings only — other associations, including the Heart of Kentucky Association of REALTORS®, also serve this county, and their listings are not counted here.
Reading it
Asking $274,000.
Asking $274,000.
Selling for $222,000.
That is the whole Grayson County story in two numbers. The median house currently listed in this county is asking around $274,000. Over the past year, the median sale price in a typical month was around $222,000. Those are not the same houses, but the spread is too wide and too persistent to be a mix effect alone.
It shows up in the ratios. Sellers here collect 95.6% of their final asking price but only 91.8% of what they first asked. That four-point gap is the price-reduction penalty, and it is the second-worst of the four.
On a $222,000 house, 3.8 points is about $8,400.
A lot of that is lake property being priced on what the seller paid in a hotter year rather than on what comparable water access has actually brought recently. Rough River draws its buyers from Louisville, Owensboro, and out of state, and that pool is thinner and more price-sensitive than it was.
3.8 ptsLost to price cuts
before the sale
before the sale
95.6%Sale price vs.
final asking price
final asking price
91 daysAverage from the
first day listed
first day listed
Land & acreage
Land is a
Land is a
different market
62Land parcels sold
in twelve months
in twelve months
124Active land listings
as of August
as of August
24.0 moSupply at the
current sale pace
current sale pace
5.2/moAverage land sales
per month on the MLS
per month on the MLS
Source: Greater Louisville Association of REALTORS® MLS, land property type, Grayson County, September 2025 through August 2026, pulled September 25, 2026. GLAR listings only — other associations, including the Heart of Kentucky Association of REALTORS®, also serve this county, and their listings are not counted here.
There are 124 land listings active in Grayson County and 126 houses. Nowhere else in these four counties is the split that even. Grayson is effectively two markets running side by side, and the land side is carrying two full years of standing inventory.
24.0 months of supply means a tract listed today is competing with 124 others, many of them lake lots that have been sitting for years and are still priced against a market that has moved. Pricing to that reality is uncomfortable and it is the only thing that separates the parcels that sell from the ones that decorate the MLS.
The upside for buyers is real: this is the best selection of recreational and lake-adjacent ground in the region, and there is room to negotiate that simply does not exist in Meade or Hardin.
62 parcels of land sold on the MLS here in twelve months, against 195 houses.
Where people are buying
The county, town
The county, town
by town
Rough River Lake
Second homes, weekend property and retirement buyers, drawing from Louisville and Owensboro rather than locally. Long marketing times are the norm, not a warning sign.
Caneyville
Working farm ground and timber. Plenty of tracts sell with a phone call to the adjoining owner instead of a listing.
Clarkson
Between Leitchfield and the interstate. A commute that works to Elizabethtown, which widens the buyer pool considerably.
Falls of Rough
The Breckinridge line, a few minutes from the dam. Where I live, and the ground I know best in this county.
Big Clifty & the county line
Scattered acreage with Western Kentucky Parkway access on the Hardin County side of Grayson. Close enough to Elizabethtown for a daily drive.
Grayson County
What's yours worth, actually?
A county average doesn't price your place. I'll pull the sales off your road — the ones with your access and your water situation — and show you how I got to the number. If I think you'd do better waiting until spring, I'll tell you that instead.
- Sales off your road, including ones that never got listed
- What your access, frontage and easements do to the number
- Whether it's worth more split up or sold whole
- A price I can walk you through line by line
And if we can't land on a price that will actually sell, I'd rather not take the listing. A sign sitting in your yard until next spring doesn't do either one of us any good.
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