How much does cremation cost in Kentucky?
$1,860. That is the median of the figures posted by the 37 funeral homes in Kentucky whose price lists we have read for direct cremation. The least expensive of them is $885 and the most expensive is $4,390.
The price lists behind these figures are dated Feb 1, 2021 to Sep 11, 2026. We last checked them between Aug 18, 2026 and Oct 13, 2026.
Every figure is that home's own posted price with its county's permit fee and one certified copy of the death certificate added, wherever both are on file, rounded once. Open a home to change the county or the number of copies.
What this includes
A state's median is the middle of the figures the homes in it show, so it carries the same county fees and the same one certified copy those figures carry.
Narrowing it down by county
| County | Price lists we hold | Least expensive | Median |
| Boyd County | 1 | $2,510 | not enough lists yet |
| Bullitt County | 3 | $1,300 | $1,810 |
| Hardin County | 1 | $2,955 | not enough lists yet |
| Jefferson County | 5 | $1,505 | $1,810 |
| McCracken County | 1 | $2,080 | not enough lists yet |
| Oldham County | 1 | $2,570 | not enough lists yet |
We hold posted prices in 6 of Kentucky's 120 counties. We are still collecting in the other 114, and a county is missing from this list because we have not read a price list there yet, not because its funeral homes charge nothing.
The Kentucky price lists behind this, for direct cremation
Least expensive first. Every figure links to the funeral home's own page, where the price list it was read from is linked in full.
| Funeral home | Town | Figure |
| Precious Memories Funeral Home | town not recorded | $885 |
| Walker Funeral Homes | town not recorded | $905 |
| Alliance Funeral Home and Cremation Center | town not recorded | $1,005 |
| Rodgers-Awkard-Lyons Funeral Home | town not recorded | $1,005 |
| Serenity Funeral Care | town not recorded | $1,260 |
| Hardy-Close Funeral Home | Shepherdsville | $1,300 |
| Newcomer Cremations, Funerals & Reception | town not recorded | $1,380 |
| West Side Chapel Northern Kentucky Chapel | town not recorded | $1,380 |
| Advantage Funeral & Cremation Services – Hardy Chapel | Louisville | $1,505 |
| Advantage Funeral & Cremation Services-Heady-Dixie | Louisville | $1,505 |
| Advantage Funeral & Cremation Services-Heady-Taylor | town not recorded | $1,505 |
| Managing Funeral Director: Josh Coffman | town not recorded | $1,760 |
| Noon & Son Funeral Home | town not recorded | $1,805 |
| Noon & Son Funeral Home | town not recorded | $1,805 |
| Schoppenhorst Funeral & Cremation Services at Fairdale | Fairdale | $1,810 |
| Schoppenhorst Funeral & Cremation Services at Okolona | Louisville | $1,810 |
| Schoppenhorst Underwood & Brooks Funeral Home | Mt. Washington | $1,810 |
| Schoppenhorst Underwood & Brooks Funeral Home | Shepherdsville | $1,810 |
| Legacy Funeral Home’s | town not recorded | $1,860 |
| G.C. Williams Funeral Home, Inc | Louisville | $1,900 |
| Caneyville Funeral Home | town not recorded | $2,005 |
| Owen Funeral Home | town not recorded | $2,005 |
| Owen Funeral Home | town not recorded | $2,005 |
| Cremation Society of Paducah | Paducah | $2,080 |
| Clark Legacy Center | town not recorded | $2,400 |
| Clark Legacy Center | town not recorded | $2,400 |
| Clark Funeral Home | town not recorded | $2,400 |
| Lazear Funeral Homes | town not recorded | $2,510 |
| Heady-Radcliffe Funeral Home & Cremation Services | Lagrange | $2,570 |
| Hinton Turner | town not recorded | $2,775 |
| Brown Funeral Home | Elizabethtown | $2,955 |
| Evergreen Funeral Home | Louisville | $3,170 |
| Burnam & Son Mortuary Inc | town not recorded | $4,270 |
| Linnemann Funeral Homes & Cremation Center | town not recorded | $4,390 |
| Linnemann Family Funeral Homes and Cremation Center | town not recorded | $4,390 |
| Linnemann Funeral Home Burlington | town not recorded | $4,390 |
| Linnemann Funeral Homes | town not recorded | $4,390 |
Other questions about Kentucky
No funeral home charges the median. It's where to start, not what you'll pay. The home you call will quote its own price, and the Federal Trade Commission's Funeral Rule requires it to give you a price list you can keep when you sit down with it.
Every funeral home we know in Kentucky
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