LedbetterKY
A town of 1,785, settled in 1900.
Is Ledbetter a good place to live?
Ledbetter’s best subject grade is an A− for cost of living; its weakest is a D for walkability. 28% of residents live below the poverty line in Ledbetter, where Kentucky’s towns sit at 16% and U.S. towns at 9.6%. On walkability, just 20 of Kentucky’s 237 towns do worse. FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 82% of U.S. communities, with inland flooding at the top. On history, just 23 of Kentucky’s 238 towns do worse. Ledbetter has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes Ledbetter stand out
Where Ledbetter beats most towns.
96% of working residents leave Ledbetter for work
Where Ledbetter’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Ledbetter grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Kentucky), ordered by how far Ledbetter is from typical.
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Moving to Ledbetter: who provides what
Ledbetter is unincorporated, so Livingston 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 Ledbetter.
Ledbetter faces a very high natural-hazard risk, led by inland flooding
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Residents of Ledbetter are less healthy than 77% of U.S. towns
Ledbetter beats the Kentucky average on 0 of 31 CDC measures and trails it on 1. 20% of adults smoke cigarettes in Ledbetter, above both the Kentucky town median (18%) and the median of U.S. towns (14%). 13% of Ledbetter adults binge drink.
| Ledbetter | Kentucky towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 18% | 14% |
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 13% | 14% | 16% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 41% | 39% | 35% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 40% | 38% | 35% |
| What stands out | Ledbetter | KY |
|---|---|---|
| More adults who have had cancer | 9.9% | 8.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Most of Ledbetter’s workers commute out: the town has 0.5 jobs for each of them
Most working residents leave Ledbetter for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Paducah (31%), Smithland (7%) and Calvert City (5%). Half commute less than 10 miles.
| Ledbetter | Kentucky towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Working residents who work in town | 4.1% | 15% | 8% |
| Average trip to work | 25 minutes | 22 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $60,000 | $60,000 | $80,000 |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
The typical home in Ledbetter is valued at about $175K
The typical Ledbetter home is worth about $175,000, up 3.9% in a year, 24% below the Kentucky typical home. 75% of households own their home in Ledbetter.
| Ledbetter | Kentucky towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 75% | 59% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,110 a month | $934 a month | $1,185 a month |
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Ledbetter has mild winters and hot summers
Ledbetter has chilly winters and warm summers, with plenty of rain. Ledbetter’s July high is 89°F.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Ledbetter has set aside 1.6% of its land for conservation
4.3 miles of trail in 0 parks and preserves.
| Ledbetter | Kentucky towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.6 miles per square mile | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 1.6% | 1.7% | 4.3% |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about Ledbetter
Colleges nearby
1 within 15 miles of the center of Ledbetter
About 7 of every 100 Ledbetter residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Kentucky.
About Ledbetter
Census-designated place in Kentucky, United States
Ledbetter is a census-designated place (CDP) in Livingston County, Kentucky, United States. As of the 2020 census, Ledbetter had a population of 1,836. This made it the largest and most populous community in Livingston County. It is part of the Paducah, KY-IL Metropolitan Statistical Area, lying directly across the Tennessee River from Paducah. The village of Salem is less than two times the population of Ledbetter.
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- Area
- 5.2 sq mi
- Elevation
- 348 ft
- ZIP code
- 42058
Questions about Ledbetter
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Ledbetter, KY expensive?
Not for the area. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades A−.