FarmersKY
Is Farmers a good place to live?
Farmers’ average commute is 41 minutes, where Kentucky’s towns sit at 22 minutes and U.S. towns at 25 minutes. No town among the 143 in Kentucky we compare has a higher owner-occupancy rate than Farmers. Ringos Mill Covered Bridge is on the National Register of Historic Places. Farmers has fewer than 1,000 residents, too few for fair grades; the figures below are still real.
What makes Farmers stand out
Where Farmers beats most towns.
206 people, and everyone knows the way
In a town this size, neighbors are the best guide. Ask them anything.
Moving to Farmers: who provides what
Farmers is unincorporated, so Rowan County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Farmers.
Farmers has a very high natural-hazard risk, chiefly from inland flooding
On expected storm and flood damage, Farmers sits above 85% of U.S. communities. Households in the town have drawn federal disaster aid once, in 2010. FEMA puts 81% of the town’s expected hazard losses down to inland flooding.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Most of Farmers’ workers commute out: the town has 0.6 jobs for each of them
Farmers: 27% of residents live below the poverty line. The top destinations are Morehead (31%), Lexington (8%) and Owingsville (2%).
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Four seasons and pleasant summers: that is Farmers’ year
July afternoons reach 87°, January nights drop to 25° and about 12 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
How healthy Farmers is
Among adults in Farmers, 21% worry about having enough food. Against the Kentucky average, Farmers comes out ahead on 3 CDC measures out of 31, and behind on 11. Just over a fifth of adults in Farmers smoke cigarettes; 20% report frequent mental distress. Only 8 of the 142 Kentucky towns we compare have a higher share of adults who have been diagnosed with depression than Farmers.
| Farmers | Kentucky towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 30% | 27% | 23% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 21% | 18% | 14% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 18% | 17% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 76% | 79% | 79% |
| What stands out | Farmers | KY |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 6.8% | 8.7% |
| Fewer adults with arthritis | 28.3% | 32.2% |
| More uninsured adults | 7.8% | 5.4% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Farmers
Colleges nearby
1 within 15 miles of the center of Farmers
About 0 of every 100 Farmers residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Kentucky.
100% of working residents leave Farmers for work
Where Farmers’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Questions about Farmers
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Farmers, KY a good place to live?
Farmers has fewer than 1,000 residents, too few for fair grades; the figures below are still real.