Is Worthington Hills a good place to live?
The best of Worthington Hills’ subject grades is a B+ for health; the weakest is a D for schools. Worthington Hills’ midpoint age is 25 years, where Kentucky’s towns sit at 37.6 years and U.S. towns at 40.5 years. On hazard risk, just 6 of Kentucky’s 238 towns do better. Only 5 of Kentucky’s 238 towns score lower on history. Worthington Hills has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes Worthington Hills stand out
Where Worthington Hills beats most towns.
100% of working residents leave Worthington Hills for work
Where Worthington Hills’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Worthington Hills grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Kentucky), ordered by how far Worthington 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 Worthington Hills. Close and well known come first.
Big draw38 mi LandmarkUnited States Bullion Depository
14 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 Worthington Hills: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Worthington 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 Worthington Hills.
Worthington Hills faces a very low natural-hazard risk, led by tornadoes
Among 142 Kentucky towns, just 6 have a lower FEMA hazard score than Worthington Hills. FEMA puts 49% of the town’s expected hazard losses down to tornadoes, and 31% to inland flooding. Households locally have drawn federal disaster aid once, in 2024.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Worthington Hills stands out in Kentucky and nationally, with fewer of its working residents who work locally
The typical journey to work in Worthington Hills is 21 minutes. The top destinations are Louisville (30%), Jeffersontown (7%) and St. Matthews (5%). The median commute is under 11 miles. Worthington Hills: 14% of residents live below the poverty line.
| Worthington Hills | Kentucky towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Working residents who work in town | 0.4% | 15% | 8% |
| Average trip to work | 21 minutes | 22 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 14% | 16% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $74,000 | $60,000 | $80,000 |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Compared with most of Kentucky and the rest of the country, fewer of Worthington Hills’ residents are 65 or older
Since 2020, Worthington Hills has grown 2.3%, to 1,593 residents in the Census Bureau’s 2025 estimate. For adults 25 and older locally, the share who hold a bachelor’s degree or more is 37%.
| Worthington Hills | Kentucky towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aged 65 or older | 7.1% | 17% | 18% |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 37% | 26% | 29% |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
Somewhere between 34% and 72% women
The Census survey reached too few of Worthington Hills’ residents to say more: its margin here is ±19.1 points. Across Kentucky, 50.5% of residents are women.
| Worthington Hills | KY | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 24.5% | 12.1% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 11.1% | 10.5% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 14.3% | 9.1% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 12.9% | 13.1% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 10.2% | 12.6% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 10.9% | 12.3% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 8.9% | 13% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 5.7% | 10.5% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 1.4% | 6.8% | 7% |
| No diploma | 8.1% | 11.1% | 10.4% |
| High school | 22.6% | 32.6% | 26% |
| Some college | 24.6% | 19.7% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 7.7% | 9% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 25.7% | 16.2% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 11.4% | 11.3% | 14.1% |
Census population estimates, 2025 · U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 1,600, single groups can be off by several points
Residents of Worthington Hills are healthier than two in three U.S. towns
In Worthington Hills, 18% of adults say their health is fair or poor. Among adults locally, 16% report frequent mental distress and 22% get no exercise outside work.
| Worthington Hills | Kentucky towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 12% | 15% | 14% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 18% | 17% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 22% | 27% | 25% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 23% | 19% |
| What stands out | Worthington Hills | KY |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults with COPD | 6.4% | 10.2% |
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 12.6% | 18.9% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Worthington Hills has four seasons and pleasant summers
In July, afternoons reach 87°; in January, nights fall to 24°, and about 15 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
The median home in Worthington Hills sells for about $227K
Among households in Worthington Hills, 73% are owner-occupiers. Only one of the 140 Kentucky towns we compare has a higher midpoint rent than Worthington Hills.
| Worthington Hills | Kentucky towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $1,766 a month | $934 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 73% | 59% | 73% |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Worthington Hills
Colleges nearby
10 within 15 miles of the center of Worthington Hills
About 3 of every 100 Worthington Hills residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Kentucky.
About Worthington Hills
City in Kentucky, United States
City of Worthington Hills is a home rule-class city in Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 1,563. A suburb of Louisville, City of Worthington Hills was separately incorporated by the state legislature on January 31, 1980.
From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · facts via Wikidata (CC0)
- Established
- 1980
- Area
- 0.2 sq mi
- Elevation
- 741 ft
Worthington Hills’s neighbors
One town shares a border with Worthington Hills.
| Town | KY rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Worthington Hills | — | — | C+ | — | D | B+ |
| Coldstream | — | — | C+ | — | D | B− |
Worthington Hills and Coldstream have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Worthington Hills and Coldstream report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Worthington Hills with a neighbor →
Questions about Worthington Hills
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Worthington Hills, KY expensive?
The typical home is worth about $224,000, 3% below the Kentucky typical home. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C+.