Elizabethtown
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Elizabethtown · Radcliff · Vine Grove · Cecilia · Rineyville · Glendale
Hardin
County, Kentucky
The biggest of the four by a wide margin — on the Louisville MLS alone, roughly five times as many houses sell here as in Breckinridge County.
Updated September 25, 2026 · MLS data through August 2026 · refreshed monthly
How it compares
Hardin next to
Hardin 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
612Homes sold
in twelve months
in twelve months
1,158Homes listed
in the same year
in the same year
259Active listings
as of August
as of August
5.1 moSupply at the
current sale pace
current sale pace
55 daysAverage days
on market
on market
95.8%Of the original
asking price
asking price
Source: Greater Louisville Association of REALTORS® MLS, residential property, Hardin 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
Fifty houses a month,
Fifty houses a month,
and real competition
612 homes closed through the Louisville MLS here over the past twelve months, and more went through the Heart of Kentucky association in Elizabethtown, which these figures don't include. Even the MLS count is more than five times Breckinridge County's, and it changes what the data can tell you. Here, comparable sales actually exist. A median price is a real signal rather than an artifact of which four houses happened to close.
It also means competition. 1,158 houses were listed on the MLS in a year, so a listing here is common enough that buyers won't drive across the county to see. It is one of hundreds of houses they can look at this weekend, and it wins or loses on price, condition and photographs in about that order.
Sellers here hold 95.8% of their original asking price and 98.2% of the final one — a two-point spread. On a $284,000 house, 2.4 points is about $6,800. That's a market that punishes overpricing quickly rather than slowly.
Fort Knox drives the northern half of the county and Elizabethtown's employment base drives the south. Both mean a buyer pool with a timeline, which is why 55 days on market is normal here and three months is a flag.
2.4 ptsLost to price cuts
before the sale
before the sale
98.2%Sale price vs.
final asking price
final asking price
73 daysAverage from the
first day listed
first day listed
Land & acreage
Land is a
Land is a
different market
30Land parcels sold
in twelve months
in twelve months
19Active land listings
as of August
as of August
7.6 moSupply at the
current sale pace
current sale pace
2.5/moAverage land sales
per month on the MLS
per month on the MLS
Source: Greater Louisville Association of REALTORS® MLS, land property type, Hardin 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.
Land is where this page sees least of Hardin County. A lot of acreage here is listed through the Heart of Kentucky association in Elizabethtown, and those listings aren't in these figures, so the 19 above is a small slice of what's for sale.
What the MLS can show is pace. At the past year's rate, the land it does carry would sell through in 7.6 months, faster than in any of the other three counties and roughly a third of Grayson's 24.0 months.
So don't price Hardin County land off this page. I'll pull what has actually sold near you, listed or not, and show you how I got to the number.
30 parcels of land sold on the MLS here in twelve months, against 612 houses.
Where people are buying
The county, town
The county, town
by town
Radcliff
Almost entirely driven by the post. Rental demand is strong, so investors are a real share of the buyers.
Vine Grove
Knox access with a small-town feel. Its own downtown, a few minutes from the Fort Knox gates and right next to Radcliff.
Cecilia & Rineyville
Where Hardin County starts turning into farm ground. West of Elizabethtown, with more acreage per house and a short drive back into town for work and shopping.
Glendale
Ford's battery plant was supposed to change everything here. Since the layoffs and the switch to energy storage, I'd price Glendale off what has actually sold nearby.
Sonora & Upton
The southern end, quieter and cheaper, with a buyer pool that overlaps LaRue and Hart counties.
Hardin 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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