RadcliffKY
A town of 22,576, settled in 1919.
Is Radcliff a good place to live?
Radcliff gives you more for your money than most places: a typical home costs about $210K, 3.1 years of the Elizabethtown metro’s $68K median household income. It grades C− overall, 121st of 138 graded towns in Kentucky. The low prices come with trade-offs. Residents are less healthy than 93% of U.S. towns on CDC estimates, and the median household income is $59K, and 16% of residents live below the poverty line. Radcliff has 2 places on the National Register. Among 115 Kentucky towns, just 7 have a higher violent crime rate than Radcliff. 50% of households own their home in Radcliff, where Kentucky’s towns sit at 59% and U.S. towns at 73%.
What makes Radcliff stand out
Where Radcliff beats most towns, and one thing worth knowing.
90% of working residents leave Radcliff for work
Where Radcliff’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Radcliff grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Kentucky), ordered by how far Radcliff is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Moving to Radcliff: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Radcliff, 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 Radcliff.
Radcliff trades lower home prices for longer drives to work and is safe by national standards but not by Kentucky’s; it also scores below Vine Grove and its other neighbors on health.
Radcliff stands out in Kentucky and nationally: a larger share of its adults sleep under 7 hours
All 3 graded neighbors score healthier than its D, from Vine Grove (C) to Fort Knox (A−).
46% of Radcliff adults sleep under 7 hours. Radcliff beats the Kentucky average on 1 of 31 CDC measures and trails it on 11. 21% of Radcliff adults smoke cigarettes.
| Radcliff | Kentucky towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 46% | 40% | 36% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 21% | 18% | 14% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 44% | 39% | 35% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 27% | 22% | 19% |
| What stands out | Radcliff | KY |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 6.9% | 8.7% |
| More uninsured adults | 8.1% | 5.4% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Public schools in Radcliff fall behind 63% of Kentucky districts
Its public schools are run by the Hardin County school district. Two of its 9 schools are below, each with why it’s listed.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Park Elementary SchoolLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–K | Grades PK–K | 604 | – |
| North Hardin High SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 1,593 | C+ |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within KY on state tests and graduation
Most of Radcliff’s workers commute out: the town has 0.5 jobs for each of them
Most working residents leave Radcliff for work: only 10% work in town. The top destinations are Elizabethtown (20%), Louisville (12%) and Shepherdsville (5%).
| Radcliff | Kentucky towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $59,000 | $60,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 25 minutes | 22 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 10% | 15% | 8% |
| Work from home | 9.4% | 10% | 11% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Radcliff reports more crime per resident than 70% of U.S. towns
At 28.2 crimes per 1,000 residents a year, it reports more crime than 82% of Kentucky’s graded towns.
The property crime rate in Radcliff is 16.3 per 1,000 residents.
Violent crime per 1,000 residents
Property crime per 1,000 residents
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
Inland flooding leads a low hazard risk in Radcliff
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 72% of U.S. communities. Since 1997, 15 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Radcliff.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
In Radcliff, expect mild winters and pleasant summers
Radcliff has chilly winters and warm summers, with plenty of rain. July afternoons reach 87°, January nights drop to 25° and about 3 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
An age mix much like Kentucky’s
No broad age group is more than 4 points off the Kentucky average. 25% of residents are under 18 in Radcliff. 18% of adults 25 and older have a bachelor’s degree or more, vs 28% across Kentucky.
| Radcliff | Kentucky towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 18 | 25% | 22% | 22% |
| Aged 65 or older | 14% | 17% | 18% |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 18% | 26% | 29% |
| Median age | 36.9 years | 37.6 years | 40.5 years |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±2.1 points. Across Kentucky, 50.5% of residents are women. Median age: women 37.4, men 36.6.
| Radcliff | KY | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 11.9% | 12.1% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 13.5% | 10.5% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 7.9% | 9.1% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 13.1% | 13.1% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 14.6% | 12.6% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 11.2% | 12.3% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 13.9% | 13% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 10% | 10.5% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 3.8% | 6.8% | 7% |
| No diploma | 11% | 11.1% | 10.4% |
| High school | 33.3% | 32.6% | 26% |
| Some college | 27.2% | 19.7% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 10.2% | 9% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 13.1% | 16.2% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 5.2% | 11.3% | 14.1% |
U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates
Radcliff earns a B+ for cost of living
Homes are within reach (about $210K for the typical one, B+ for cost of living), but half of working residents commute more than 22 miles.
The typical Radcliff home is worth about $210,000, down 1% in a year, 9% below the Kentucky typical home.
Typical home value
Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
0.8% of Radcliff is conserved land
Just 69 of its 8,600 acres are conserved, so there is little public open land in Radcliff itself; its outdoors grade is C−.
1.4 miles of trail in 0 parks and preserves. Radcliff’s trail density is 0.1 miles per square mile.
| Radcliff | Kentucky towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.1 miles per square mile | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 0.8% | 1.8% | 4.3% |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
United States Bullion Depository and 31 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Radcliff. Close and well known come first.
Big draw5 mi LandmarkUnited States Bullion Depository
Big draw38 mi National ParkMammoth Cave National Park661K visitors a year32 mi MuseumSons of the American Revolution
21 mi National Historical ParkAbraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park213K visitors a year
28 mi Theme parkKentucky Kingdom
28 mi Stadium & arenaL&N Federal Credit Union StadiumPhoto credits
United States Bullion Depository: Work permit Original author=Cliff, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Mammoth Cave National Park: Willis Thomas Lee, Public domain · Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park: Jamie from Toronto, ON, CC BY 2.0 · Kentucky Kingdom: Stevietheman at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · L&N Federal Credit Union Stadium: Perthsider, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Everything we know about Radcliff
Colleges nearby
1 within 15 miles of the center of Radcliff
About 3 of every 100 Radcliff residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Kentucky.
About Radcliff
City in Kentucky, United States
Radcliff is a city in Hardin County, Kentucky, in the United States. The population was around 23,042 as of the 2020 Census, up from 21,692 from the 2010 census. Its economy is largely dominated by the adjacent U.S. Army base Fort Knox and by the nearby city of Elizabethtown. Radcliff's population previously fluctuated greatly depending on the deployments of the units at the base, but the BRAC reorganization of 2005, and the quartering of the U.S. Army's Human Resources Command to Fort Knox has created a larger and more stable population. Radcliff is a home-rule class city under Kentucky law.
From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · facts via Wikidata (CC0)
- Established
- 1919
- Area
- 12 sq mi
- Elevation
- 771 ft
- ZIP code
- 40159, 40160
- Area code
- 270, 364
Radcliff’s neighbors
3 towns share a border with Radcliff.
| Town | KY rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Radcliff | #121 | C− | B+ | C | C+ | D |
| Vine Grove | #79 | C | C+ | A | C+ | C |
| Fort Knox | — | — | C− | — | — | A− |
| Elizabethtown | #77 | C | B− | B+ | C+ | C |
Fort Knox reports no FBI crime data of its own. Fort Knox isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Radcliff with a neighbor →
Questions about Radcliff
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Radcliff, KY a good place to live?
Radcliff grades C− overall, better than 16% of U.S. towns and #121 of 138 in Kentucky. It grades D for health, C for safety and C+ for schools. Health is its weak spot, with a D.
Is Radcliff, 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 B+.
What is Radcliff, KY known for?
2 notable people were born here, including Jordan Brangers and Howard Stidham.