Orchard Grass HillsKY
A town of 1,623, settled in 1979.
Is Orchard Grass Hills a good place to live?
Orchard Grass Hills’ best subject grades are an A+ for schools, an A for incomes, and an A− for health; its weakest is a D for walkability. Only 10 of Kentucky’s 237 towns score lower on walkability. Orchard Grass Hills has 5 places on the National Register. Orchard Grass Hills has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
100% of working residents leave Orchard Grass Hills for work
Where Orchard Grass Hills’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Orchard Grass Hills grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Kentucky), ordered by how far Orchard Grass Hills is from typical.
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Sons of the American Revolution and 30 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Orchard Grass Hills. Close and well known come first.
Big draw39 mi LandmarkUnited States Bullion Depository
15 mi Theme parkKentucky Kingdom
12 mi Stadium & arenaLynn Family Stadium
13 mi Stadium & arenaKFC Yum! Center
15 mi Stadium & arenaL&N Federal Credit Union StadiumPhoto credits
United States Bullion Depository: Work permit Original author=Cliff, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Kentucky Kingdom: Stevietheman at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Lynn Family Stadium: Bpluke01, CC BY-SA 4.0 · KFC Yum! Center: Jamesmac96, CC BY 3.0 · L&N Federal Credit Union Stadium: Perthsider, CC BY-SA 3.0
Moving to Orchard Grass Hills: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Orchard Grass Hills, and how to reach them.
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 Orchard Grass Hills.
Orchard Grass Hills ranks healthier than 83% of the country’s towns
Orchard Grass Hills beats the Kentucky average on 21 of 31 CDC measures and trails it on 1. 11% of adults report frequent physical distress in Orchard Grass Hills, below both the Kentucky town median (15%) and the median of U.S. towns (14%). 19% of adults get no exercise outside work in Orchard Grass Hills.
| Orchard Grass Hills | Kentucky towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 11% | 15% | 14% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 27% | 25% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 31% | 38% | 35% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 23% | 19% |
| What stands out | Orchard Grass Hills | KY |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 8.7% | 18.9% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 9.1% | 15.5% |
| Fewer adults treating high blood pressure | 77.2% | 81.3% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
In Orchard Grass Hills, the median rent runs higher than in the typical Kentucky or U.S. town
At $1,817 a month, Orchard Grass Hills’ median rent is against $934 a month in Kentucky’s towns and $1,185 a month across U.S. towns. 87% of Orchard Grass Hills households own their home. The typical Orchard Grass Hills home is worth about $309,000, down 0.9% in a year, 34% above the Kentucky typical home.
| Orchard Grass Hills | Kentucky towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $1,817 a month | $934 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 87% | 59% | 73% |
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Compared with most of Kentucky and the rest of the country, fewer of Orchard Grass Hills’ working residents work locally
No town among the 143 in Kentucky we compare has a lower share of working residents who work in town than Orchard Grass Hills. Since 2013, Orchard Grass Hills has added 52 jobs, to 111 in 2023. Orchard Grass Hills’ median household income is $107,000.
| Orchard Grass Hills | Kentucky towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $107,000 | $60,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 0.1% | 15% | 8% |
| Below the poverty line | 7.4% | 16% | 9.6% |
| Average trip to work | 24 minutes | 22 minutes | 25 minutes |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Orchard Grass Hills has four seasons and pleasant summers
Orchard Grass Hills has chilly winters and warm summers, with plenty of rain. July afternoons reach 87°, January nights drop to 24° and about 15 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Orchard Grass Hills faces a moderate natural-hazard risk, led by inland flooding
Expected storm and flood damage is higher than in 53% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Orchard Grass Hills has set aside 2% of its land for conservation
0.0 miles of trail in 1 park or preserve.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Briar Hill Park | — | 5 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about Orchard Grass Hills
Colleges nearby
10 within 15 miles of the center of Orchard Grass Hills
About 3 of every 100 Orchard Grass Hills residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Kentucky.
About Orchard Grass Hills
City in Kentucky, United States
Orchard Grass Hills is a home rule-class city in Oldham County, Kentucky, in the United States. The population was 1,536 as of the 2020 census.
From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · facts via Wikidata (CC0)
- Established
- 1979
- Area
- 0.4 sq mi
- Elevation
- 630 ft
Questions about Orchard Grass Hills
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Orchard Grass Hills, KY expensive?
Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C.