Brandenburg
The courthouse and the river. Buyers who want a town address with water access, plus most of the county's commercial ground.
Brandenburg · Payneville · Ekron · Flaherty · Guston · Battletown · Muldraugh
Meade
County, Kentucky
The fastest of the four counties on this site, and the one most tied to Fort Knox. If you are selling here, the numbers below are better news than most sellers expect, which is exactly the trap. Good numbers make overpricing feel safe.
Houses · 12 months ending August 2026
What the county actually did
240Homes sold
in twelve months
in twelve months
442Homes listed
in the same year
in the same year
95Active listings
as of August
as of August
4.8 moSupply at the
current sale pace
current sale pace
45 daysAverage days
on market
on market
96.3 %Of the original
asking price
asking price
Source: Greater Louisville Association of Realtors MLS, residential property, Meade County, September 2025 through August 2026, pulled 3 September 2026. Figures are twelve-month totals or averages of monthly values. 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
Twenty homes a month,
Twenty homes a month,
and they don't sit
Meade County moves. Forty-five days on market on average, and sellers here collect 96.3% of what they asked on day one — the strongest figure of the four counties here. Under five months of standing inventory is, by the usual measure, a seller's market.
The reason is thirty minutes down the road. Fort Knox turns over its population on a schedule, and that produces a buyer pool that arrives with a report date, a pre-approval, and no ability to wait for you to come down on price in November. It also produces a listing calendar: inventory and sales both swell from April through July and thin out hard after the holidays.
Nine houses sold countywide in February. Thirty-four sold in May. Same county, same houses, three months apart — the timing of your listing is worth more here than in any of the other three.
The gap between selling at 98.1% of the final asking price and 96.3% of the original one is small by rural standards — under two points. That narrow spread is the tell that this market prices accurately. When a house here does need a reduction, it is usually because it was priced against Elizabethtown finishes on a Meade County road.
54 %Share of listings
that actually sold
that actually sold
98.1 %Sale price vs.
final asking price
final asking price
65 daysAverage from the
first day listed
first day listed
Land & acreage
The land market,
The land market,
separately
20Land parcels sold
in twelve months
in twelve months
26Active land listings
as of August
as of August
15.6 moSupply at the
current sale pace
current sale pace
1.7 /moAverage land sales
per month, countywide
per month, countywide
Source: Greater Louisville Association of Realtors MLS, land property type, Meade County, September 2025 through August 2026, pulled 3 September 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 here behaves nothing like the houses. Under two parcels a month change hands countywide, against twenty houses. That is more than fifteen months of standing inventory, and some months not one tract closes.
The disconnect is worth understanding before you list. A Meade County house sells in six weeks; a Meade County tract can take a year, and that is normal rather than a sign the price is wrong. Cutting the price on a land listing at ninety days because a house would have sold by then is how sellers here leave money behind.
What moves the per-acre number: river frontage and the flood designation that comes with it, distance to the Fort Knox gates, whether the road is state-maintained, and whether the tract can be split under current county rules.
Out here your buyer is often whoever's fence already touches yours. They probably aren't sitting up at night watching listings. You reach a buyer like that by calling them, or by stopping to talk to them.
Where people are buying
The county, town
The county, town
by town
Muldraugh & Flaherty
Straight into the gates. This is where the PCS buyer pool lands first, and where a well-priced house moves in weeks rather than months.
Payneville & Battletown
Farm ground and river bottom out toward the Ohio. Larger parcels, fewer sales, and a buyer who is usually already in the county.
Ekron & Guston
Small, central, and quiet. Older housing on generous lots, and some of the best value per acre in the county.
Flaherty
School district draw and a commute that works to both Knox and Elizabethtown. Consistently one of the steadier corners of the county.
Garrett & Rhodelia
Scattered acreage and a lot of ground that trades between neighbors without ever reaching the MLS.
Meade County
What's yours worth,
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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