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Real estate businesses in Martin County, KY

How Martin County, KY compares with other counties and the U.S. for real estate businesses: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.

Groundwork market score

Not scored

The score needs at least 5 listings; this market has 1.

Listings
1
0 chain locations (0%)
Official establishments
n/a
Fewer than 3, or not published
Household spending a year
$48.6M
On rent and homeowner costs · $12,597 a household
Housing spending per listing (U.S. = 100)
1,121
Too few listings to compare
Listings per 10k households
2.6
Too few listings to compare
Population, 2025
10,697
−4.9% since 2020

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Survey estimates 2020–2024 · population estimates 2025 · official business counts 2023 · map listings September 2026 · Data credits · How we measure

What this means

Household spending on rent and homeowner costs in Martin County comes to about $48.6M a year: $12,597 per household, 24% below the U.S. average. The spending figure is all rent and homeowner costs, a measure of housing demand, not money real estate businesses take in.

Martin County has 1 real estate business on map listings as of September 2026. That is 2.6 per 10,000 households.

Official counts don’t publish a figure for real estate agents, property managers, mortgage lenders and inspectors in Martin County, since they leave out counts under 3.

Population estimates show Martin County declined 4.9% from 2020 to 2025, against +3.1% for the U.S. With 1 real estate business on map listings, Martin County isn’t given a market score: the score needs at least 5, since one listing more or less would swing it.

How Martin County compares

The same measures for Kentucky and the whole U.S. Housing spending per listing divides all rent and homeowner costs by the listings counted: a measure of housing demand for each business, not money any of them take in, so it is shown against the U.S. (100) only. Households per establishment divides households by the official count.

Real estate in Martin County, KY compared with Kentucky and the U.S.
MeasureMartin CountyKentuckyU.S.
Listings per 10k households2.627.438.5
Housing spending per listing (U.S. = 100)1,121120100
Households per official establishmentn/a683414
Official establishment growth, 2019–2023n/a+20.5%+15.8%
Population growth, 2020–2025−4.9%+2.2%+3.1%
Spending per household on rent and homeowner costs$12,597$14,283$16,661
Median household income$37,042$63,726$80,734
Groundwork market scoreNot scored60

Official counts and lending

Businesses

Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
n/a
Employees, 2023
n/a
Annual payroll, 2023
n/a
One-person businesses, 2023
0Businesses with no payroll
Map listings, September 2026
10 chain locations
Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
11The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here

SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022

Loans
0
Amount
$0

SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as real estate agents, property managers, mortgage lenders and inspectors in Martin County, through June 2026, placed by the borrower’s ZIP code. Official establishments are businesses with payroll; the official counts leave out places with fewer than 3.

Population and households in Martin County

Population, 2025 estimate
10,697−4.9% since 2020
Households
3,854
Median age
42.0
Homes lived in by their owners
85%
Vehicles per household
1.9
Land area
230 sq. mi.
People per square mile
48
Median household income
$37,042−9.7% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
Average household income
$67,172
Median home value
$86,900
Jobs located here
1,557
Daytime population
9,793Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here

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Real estate across Kentucky

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The highest-scoring counties in Kentucky for real estate businesses, numbered among those based in Kentucky, with Martin County marked.

Top counties in Kentucky

Counties in Kentucky ranked for real estate businesses by Groundwork market score
MarketScoreListingsPer 10k householdsHousing spending per listing (U.S. = 100)Population growthU.S. rank
1Harrison County, KY80811.0300+4.9%#24 of 2,229
2Spencer County, KY801216.4233+7.7%#28 of 2,229
3Lincoln County, KY7699.3328+4.6%#84 of 2,229
4Grant County, KY7377.6429+4.7%#136 of 2,229
5Hart County, KY72810.8278+4.3%#161 of 2,229
6Woodford County, KY701816.6218+3.7%#210 of 2,229
7Nelson County, KY703015.7213+4.8%#211 of 2,229
8Anderson County, KY701818.6182+5.5%#216 of 2,229
9Meade County, KY681715.4225+2.2%#273 of 2,229
10Mercer County, KY671314.2230+4.8%#301 of 2,229
Martin County, KYNot scored12.61,121−4.9%

Other business types in Martin County

Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.

Questions

How many real estate businesses are in Martin County, KY?

Map listings as of September 2026 show 1 real estate business in Martin County. The listings count real estate agents and brokers, property managers, mortgage brokers and lenders, and home inspectors. No official count is published for real estate agents, property managers, mortgage lenders and inspectors in Martin County: counts under 3 are left out.

How much do households in Martin County, KY spend on rent and homeowner costs?

About $48.6M a year, or $12,597 per household. That is 24% below the U.S. average (an index of 76, where 100 is the U.S. average). That figure is all rent and homeowner costs, used as a measure of housing demand; it is not money real estate businesses take in. It is estimated from the incomes of the 3,854 households in Martin County and national spending patterns by income.

How does Martin County, KY compare with the U.S. for real estate businesses?

Martin County has 1 real estate business on map listings, too few for a steady comparison with the U.S. rate. At the U.S. ratio of real estate businesses to household spending, Martin County would have about 11, against 1 on map listings.

How fast is Martin County, KY growing?

Population estimates put Martin County at 10,697 people in 2025, down 4.9% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 3,854 households. Median household income in Martin County is $37,042, 54% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median fell 9.7%, before inflation.

What is the Groundwork market score?

The Groundwork market score runs from 0 to 100 and compares a market with others of its kind for one business type: states with states, metro areas with metro areas, small-town markets and counties with their own. It weighs household spending per competitor (35%), households per business with payroll (25%), population growth (20%) and spending power (20%), each ranked against those peers. A higher score means that, taken together, the market has more household spending and more households for each business already there, faster population growth and more spending per household than similar markets. It describes a market, not any one site or deal. Martin County has no market score for real estate businesses: the score needs at least 5 on map listings, and it has 1.

How can I see the market around a specific site?

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