Ashland, Kentucky

Ashland population, 2020 to 2024

Ashland lost 523 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.4%. In the latest year it moved by -61. Among 79 Kentucky places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 73rd; the median place changed by +2.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Kentucky has 10,541 people, so Ashland is 2.0 times that size.

Ashland covers 10.74 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 1,961 people per square mile of land. The median Kentucky place of 5,000+ has 1,588, so Ashland is denser than the typical town.

What county Ashland is in

All of Ashland's residents live in Boyd County, which had 47,777 residents in 2024. Ashland holds 44.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Ashland

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Ashland by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 41101, 41102. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Ashland is

The Census internal point of Ashland is at 38.459500, -82.645100. Frankfort, the capital, is 122.3 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Huntington, WV (44,942 people), 11.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Lexington-Fayette, KY, 102.5 miles away.

Daylight in Ashland

At 38.46° N, Ashland gets about 14 h 51 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 29 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 22 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Ashland

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kentucky, measured between internal points. The closest is Catlettsburg, 3.7 miles away, with 1,725 people.