Clay City, Kentucky

Clay City population, 2020 to 2024

Clay City lost 14 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.2%. In the latest year it moved by -7.

Clay City covers 1.06 square miles of land and 0.06 of water, for 1,109 people per square mile of land. The median Kentucky place of 5,000+ has 1,588, so Clay City is less dense than the typical town.

What county Clay City is in

All of Clay City's residents live in Powell County, which had 12,928 residents in 2024. Clay City holds 9.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Clay City

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Clay City by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 40312. 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 Clay City is

The Census internal point of Clay City is at 37.860800, -83.929700. Frankfort, the capital, is 56.2 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Stanton, KY (3,171 people), 4.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Lexington-Fayette, KY, 31.4 miles away.

Daylight in Clay City

At 37.86° N, Clay City gets about 14 h 47 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 32 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 Clay City

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kentucky, measured between internal points. The closest is Stanton, 4.1 miles away, with 3,171 people.