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. 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.
How TownRatings grades towns →
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
The natural-hazard score from FEMA for Ledbetter comes to 82 of 100, where Kentucky’s towns sit at 48 of 100 and U.S. towns at 44 of 100. 31% of the town’s expected losses from natural hazards come from inland flooding, followed by earthquakes at 27%. Households in the town have drawn federal disaster aid once, in 2011.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Residents of Ledbetter are less healthy than three in four U.S. towns
The share of adults in Ledbetter who have obesity is 41%, against 39% in Kentucky’s towns and 35% across U.S. towns. For adults locally, the share who smoke cigarettes is 20%.
| 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% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 28% | 27% | 23% |
| What stands out | Ledbetter | KY |
|---|---|---|
| More adults who have had cancer | 9.9% | 8.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
With only 0.5 jobs per working resident, most people in Ledbetter work out of town
The top destinations are Paducah (31%), Smithland (7%) and Calvert City (5%). The share of residents in Ledbetter who live below the poverty line: 28%. Half commute less than 10 miles. The mean commuting time here is 25 minutes.
| Ledbetter | Kentucky towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 28% | 16% | 9.6% |
| 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
A home in Ledbetter is worth about $175K, on Zillow’s estimate
Home values are up 3.9% over the year to September 2026. In Ledbetter, 75% of households are owner-occupiers. A home in Ledbetter typically sold within 61 days of listing.
| 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
The climate in Ledbetter brings mild winters and hot summers
In July, afternoons reach 89°; in January, nights fall to 27°, and about 4 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
In Ledbetter, 1.6% of the land is conserved
4.3 miles of trail. For Ledbetter, the trail density is 0.6 miles per square mile.
| 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−.