Beaumont & Lexington’s Southwest Side
Beaumont is the southwest side’s answer to the convenience question — planned, polished, and closer to the hospitals.
Beaumont anchors Lexington’s southwest side: a master-planned community of newer traditional homes around its own retail centre, with the Harrodsburg Road corridor connecting to UK, the hospitals, and downtown. It offers Hamburg-style convenience with a somewhat leafier, more established feel.
Property records and assessments for Fayette County addresses are maintained by the Fayette County Property Valuation Administrator.
What to Love
Beaumont was planned as a piece: traditional-style homes on connected streets, its own retail-and-office centre, green space threaded through, and the sense of coherence that master planning buys. The southwest location earns its keep for anyone tied to the university, the medical corridor, or the airport — all reachable without crossing the city.
The southwest side’s answer to the convenience question — planned, polished, and closer to the hospitals.
Local Lifestyle
The rhythm is established-suburban: sidewalk evenings, the Beaumont Centre circuit for errands and dinner, club and pool memberships for summer, and Keeneland practically in the neighborhood — the track sits minutes away, which turns race season into a local habit rather than an event.
Dining, Shopping & Everyday Life
Beaumont Centre carries groceries, dining, and services inside the community’s own footprint, with the Fayette Mall district and Nicholasville Road retail a short drive east. Palomar and Harrodsburg Road corridors add their own clusters — the southwest side wants for nothing on the daily list.
Things to Do
Keeneland mornings during the meets, the Arboretum on the university’s edge, golf at the area clubs, and quick escapes down US-68 toward Harrodsburg’s history or the Kentucky River palisades. Downtown’s restaurant blocks sit fifteen minutes out.
The Housing Picture
Beaumont proper offers 1990s-to-2000s traditional homes with mature-enough trees and active HOAs; surrounding southwest neighborhoods — Palomar, Firebrook, Harrods Hill and their peers — widen the range from established to newer construction. The southwest side generally trades at a premium to the city’s newer east-side product, reflecting the hospital-and-university gravity.
Beaumont Market Snapshot
These figures come from FlexMLS, the MLS system I work in, for residential listings in ZIP 40513, which covers Beaumont and the surrounding southwest side. Over the twelve months ending September 2026, 136 homes sold in the ZIP. In September 2026 alone, 13 homes closed at a median sold price of $500,000, 33 homes were active on the market, and the homes that sold had averaged 16 days on market. Across the year, the monthly median sold price ran between $500,000 and $680,000.
Source: FlexMLS market statistics, pulled October 10, 2026. A month here is a handful of sales, so read these as a direction, not a price for your house.
How 40513’s Housing Stock Compares to Fayette County
Beaumont’s ZIP is an owner-occupied, single-family, mid-1990s pocket of a county that is nearly half renters. In ZIP code tabulation area 40513, 3,375 of 4,509 occupied homes are owner-occupied — 74.9 percent — against 53.6 percent countywide. Of the ZIP’s 4,734 housing units, 3,272 are single-unit detached houses, 69.1 percent. The median year a structure in 40513 was built is 1995, and the median value of an owner-occupied home is $448,100. All four figures come from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey 2019–2023 five-year estimates.
Read the two sets of numbers on this page together and do not mix them up. The $448,100 is an ACS five-year estimate of what owners say their homes are worth across 2019 through 2023 — a backward-looking average of opinion. The $500,000 median sold price above is what houses in the ZIP actually closed at in September 2026, from FlexMLS. The gap between them is mostly the passage of time, and it is a reasonable illustration of why a Census figure is useful for describing a neighbourhood’s shape and useless for pricing your house.
What that 74.9 percent owner share means in practice is a thinner rental market and a buyer pool that skews toward people intending to stay. If you are weighing Beaumont against other parts of the county, our Lexington area guide covers the broader market, the communities overview maps the neighbourhoods we work in, and a home valuation is the only way to turn either of these data sets into a number for your address.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2019–2023 five-year estimates, tables B25003, B25024, B25035 and B25077, ZCTA 40513 and Fayette County, Kentucky. Retrieved November 5, 2026. ACS figures are period estimates with margins of error, not counts.
Selling a Home in Beaumont
If you own in Beaumont and are weighing a sale, the comps change street by street and the buyer pool is tied to UK and the hospitals, so the price and the launch date matter more than the staging budget. Start with how I list and sell homes, or call or text (859) 310-1209 and I will tell you what your home would bring today, with the numbers behind it.
Common Questions
How close are UK and the hospitals?
The university and medical corridor sit ten to fifteen minutes up Nicholasville or Harrodsburg Road — a decisive advantage for medical and academic households, and a big reason the southwest side holds its demand.
Beaumont or Hamburg — how do buyers choose?
Geography first: southwest for UK, hospitals, and airport; east for I-75 commuting and maximum retail. Beyond that it’s feel — Beaumont reads slightly more established, Hamburg slightly newer. Touring both in one afternoon usually settles it.
Compare with Hamburg, or see the full Lexington guide.
Marcos Gil, REALTOR® · Keller Williams Commonwealth · Based in Beattyville, serving Lexington to the Red River Gorge · Also owner of Central Property Services and publisher of Invest in the Gorge — any recommendation involving my other businesses is disclosed in writing.
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Last updated: November 5, 2026