Wallins Creek is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Harlan County, Kentucky, United States.

Wallins Creek is in western Harlan County, in the valley of the Cumberland River.

U.S. Route 119 runs through the northern part of the community, leading northwest (upriver) 8 miles (13 km) to Harlan, the county seat, and southwest 23 miles (37 km) to Pineville.

The racial makeup of the city was 97.28% White, 0.39% Native American, and 2.33% from two or more races.

About 47.6% of families and 44.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 46.9% of those under the age of eighteen and 14.6% of those 65 or over.