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Beech Creek, KY

Single-footprint Census roll-up for Beech Creek, KY: 1 USPS ZIP, population 327. Open the primary ZIP for household income, housing tenure, and commute from ACS 2023 5-Year Estimates.

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ACS city ledger plate

Sheet BEECH-CREEK-KY · Beech Creek, KY 1 ZIPs · 327 pop · #20475/25278 · Muhlenberg County

INC-MID · RANK-BOTTOM · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-ONE · OWN-HIGH · POP-VILLAGE · SPREAD-UNK · HOME-LOW

  • INC-MID $53,750
  • RANK-BOTTOM #20475/25278
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Beechmont
  • BOOK-ONE 1 ZIP
  • OWN-HIGH 93% owners
  • POP-VILLAGE 327
  • SPREAD-UNK Single-ZIP book
  • HOME-LOW $79,800

Nearest income peer: Beechmont, KY ( $312 income $)

Instrument codes from this city’s ACS household income, national rank, county-peer gap, ZIP book, owner tenure, population scale, intra-city income spread, and home-value band, not a moving recommendation.

Income neighbourhood around Beech Creek

Lowest/highest poles plus county-sharing cities nearest Beech Creek on average ZIP median household income. Full ladder: /cities.

median HH income

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Source U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 5-Year Estimates As of 2026-08-25

National city placement

According to ACS 5-Year Estimates, Beech Creek, KY sits among US cities with one of the lowest household incomes among US cities, on a village-scale population base, across a single-ZIP footprint.

19th pct
household income vs 25,278 US cities
327
city population (Census)
1
USPS ZIP codes covered
$53,750
avg ZIP median income

Income percentile ranks this city's average ZIP median household income against 25,278 US cities with ACS income on at least one ZIP. Scale and ZIP-spread words come from Census population and USPS ZIP coverage.

Lower-income footing on only 1 ZIP ($53,750 average) · poverty 12.8%. The primary code (42321) carries the ACS household fields that matter.

Owner-occupancy here runs high (92.5%) - tenure is stable enough that the ZIP detail's owner share is the right next click, not a renter-heavy compare.

Within Kentucky, Edmonton is the closest lower-income city and Hustonville the closest higher-income city by average ZIP household income. Their 1 and 1 ZIP footprints are the immediate statewide comparison set for Beech Creek.

Population concentration

Beech Creek's single ZIP 42321 carries the town

Beech Creek is published as a single USPS ZIP. Code 42321 is the entire residential footprint (327 ACS residents), so the city page and the ZIP page tell the same household story, open that ZIP for income, tenure, and commute detail.

Census ZBP business roll-up

No ZBP establishments filed for Beech Creek's ZIPs

Census County Business Patterns has no establishment rows joined to the ACS ZIPs mapped to Beech Creek. Read demography on this page; business counts are absent for this footprint.

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ZIP Codes in Beech Creek, KY

These ZIP codes sit in Muhlenberg County, which covers 13 ZIP codes in all; 1 of them fall in Beech Creek. See the Muhlenberg County roll-up →

Beech Creek sits in the upper half of Muhlenberg County on income: Central City, Drakesboro and Graham report less, while Greenville, Bremen and Belton report more. Bremen marks the far end of that range at $78,750, 47% above Beech Creek.

ZIP Code Population Median income Establishments Density
42321 327 $53,750 n/a 82
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