Berea, Kentucky

Berea population, 2020 to 2024

Berea added 838 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +5.4%. In the latest year it moved by +403. Among 79 Kentucky places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 9th; the median place changed by +2.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Kentucky has 10,541 people, so Berea is 1.6 times that size.

Berea covers 16.52 square miles of land and 0.07 of water, for 995 people per square mile of land. The median Kentucky place of 5,000+ has 1,588, so Berea is less dense than the typical town.

What county Berea is in

All of Berea's residents live in Madison County, which had 99,582 residents in 2024. Berea holds 16.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Berea

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Berea by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 40403, 40404. 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 Berea is

The Census internal point of Berea is at 37.589300, -84.294500. Frankfort, the capital, is 52.0 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Richmond, KY (39,581 people), 9.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Lexington-Fayette, KY, 32.4 miles away.

Daylight in Berea

At 37.59° N, Berea gets about 14 h 46 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 34 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 12 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Berea

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kentucky, measured between internal points. The closest is Richmond, 9.7 miles away, with 39,581 people.