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 closely tied to Fort Knox; Muldraugh sits right outside the post. 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.
Updated September 25, 2026 · MLS data through August 2026 · refreshed monthly
How it compares
Meade next to
Meade 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
242Homes sold
in twelve months
in twelve months
444Homes listed
in the same year
in the same year
94Active listings
as of August
as of August
4.7 moSupply at the
current sale pace
current sale pace
43 daysAverage days
on market
on market
96.4%Of the original
asking price
asking price
Source: Greater Louisville Association of REALTORS® MLS, residential property, Meade 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
Twenty homes a month,
Twenty homes a month,
and they don't sit
Meade County moves. 43 days on market on average, and sellers here collect 96.4% 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.
9 houses sold on the MLS here in February. 34 sold in May. Same county, same houses, three months apart — the timing of your listing is worth real money here.
The gap between selling at 98.1% of the final asking price and 96.4% of the original one is small by rural standards — under two points. On a $292,000 house, 1.7 points is about $5,000. 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.
1.7 ptsLost to price cuts
before the sale
before the sale
98.1%Sale price vs.
final asking price
final asking price
63 daysAverage from the
first day listed
first day listed
Land & acreage
Land is a
Land is a
different market
20Land parcels sold
in twelve months
in twelve months
25Active land listings
as of August
as of August
15.0 moSupply at the
current sale pace
current sale pace
1.7/moAverage land sales
per month on the MLS
per month on the MLS
Source: Greater Louisville Association of REALTORS® MLS, land property type, Meade 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 here behaves nothing like the houses. On the MLS, under two parcels a month change hands here, against twenty houses. That is 15.0 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.
20 parcels of land sold on the MLS here in twelve months, against 242 houses.
Where people are buying
The county, town
The county, town
by town
Muldraugh
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 & Rhodelia
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
The middle of the county, between Brandenburg and the Breckinridge line. Older houses on generous lots, close enough to town for errands and far enough out to feel like the country.
Flaherty
A commute that works to both Fort Knox and Elizabethtown, with Flaherty Elementary close by and the Hardin County line a few minutes east.
Garrett
Scattered acreage off US 60. A lot of it changes hands through family and word of mouth without ever reaching the MLS.
Meade 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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