ZIP 40046 vs ZIP 40012

This side-by-side compares ZIP 40046 (Mount Eden, KY) and ZIP 40012 (Chaplin, KY) using the same Census ACS 5-Year table fields for both — no averages swapped in, no national proxies. ZIP 40046 has a population of 1,741 at 14 people per square mile, while ZIP 40012 has 589 at 23 per square mile. That difference in population size and density alone reshapes how every other metric should be interpreted — a higher-income ZIP with 1,200 residents behaves very differently from one with 45,000.

On income and education, ZIP 40046 reports a median household income of $66,000 against $105,033 in ZIP 40012, with per-capita income of $35,707 vs $34,878. The share of adults holding a bachelor's degree or higher is 9.4% in 40046 and 15.0% in 40012. Poverty rate reads 18.2% vs 13.2%, and unemployment 10.4% vs 1.8% — these four fields alone drive most of the difference in the scorecard grades you will see for each ZIP.

Housing separates these two ZIPs further: median home value sits at $221,000 in 40046 versus $219,400 in 40012, with median rent of — and — per month respectively. Homeownership rate is 88.7% vs 95.5%. When reading the comparison table below, focus on paired metrics rather than single winners — a ZIP with lower home values and lower income is not strictly "worse" if rent-to-income ratios and commute times land in the same zone. Every value is pulled from the exact same ACS table so the two columns are genuinely comparable.