Bardstown, Kentucky

Bardstown population, 2020 to 2024

Bardstown added 522 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.8%. In the latest year it moved by +201. Among 79 Kentucky places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 25th; the median place changed by +2.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Kentucky has 10,541 people, so Bardstown is 1.3 times that size.

Bardstown covers 12.11 square miles of land and 0.08 of water, for 1,165 people per square mile of land. The median Kentucky place of 5,000+ has 1,588, so Bardstown is less dense than the typical town.

What county Bardstown is in

All of Bardstown's residents live in Nelson County, which had 48,706 residents in 2024. Bardstown holds 29.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Bardstown

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Bardstown by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 40004. 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 Bardstown is

The Census internal point of Bardstown is at 37.817700, -85.455300. Frankfort, the capital, is 40.6 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Mount Washington, KY (18,863 people), 16.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Louisville/Jefferson County, KY, 26.2 miles away.

Daylight in Bardstown

At 37.82° N, Bardstown gets about 14 h 47 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 33 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 15 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Bardstown

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kentucky, measured between internal points. The closest is Lebanon Junction, 14.6 miles away, with 1,818 people.