Brandenburg, Kentucky

Brandenburg population, 2020 to 2024

Brandenburg added 69 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.4%. In the latest year it moved by +15.

Brandenburg covers 4.35 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 684 people per square mile of land. The median Kentucky place of 5,000+ has 1,588, so Brandenburg is less dense than the typical town.

What county Brandenburg is in

All of Brandenburg's residents live in Meade County, which had 30,442 residents in 2024. Brandenburg holds 9.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Brandenburg

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Brandenburg by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 40108. 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 Brandenburg is

The Census internal point of Brandenburg is at 37.997000, -86.180300. Frankfort, the capital, is 72.2 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Corydon, IN (3,153 people), 15.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Louisville/Jefferson County, KY, 31.3 miles away.

Daylight in Brandenburg

At 38.00° N, Brandenburg gets about 14 h 48 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 32 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 17 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Brandenburg

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kentucky, measured between internal points. The closest is Irvington, 10.0 miles away, with 1,383 people.