Covington, Kentucky

Covington population, 2020 to 2024

Covington added 669 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.6%. In the latest year it moved by +435. Among 79 Kentucky places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 45th; the median place changed by +2.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Kentucky has 10,541 people, so Covington is 3.9 times that size.

Covington covers 13.17 square miles of land and 0.59 of water, for 3,160 people per square mile of land. The median Kentucky place of 5,000+ has 1,588, so Covington is denser than the typical town.

What county Covington is in

All of Covington's residents live in Kenton County, which had 174,862 residents in 2024. Covington holds 23.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Covington

5 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Covington by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 41011, 41014, 41015, 41016, 41017. 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 Covington is

The Census internal point of Covington is at 39.035100, -84.519600. Frankfort, the capital, is 61.7 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Cincinnati, OH (314,915 people), 7.3 miles away.

Daylight in Covington

At 39.04° N, Covington gets about 14 h 55 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 26 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 29 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Covington

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kentucky, measured between internal points. The closest is Fort Wright, 1.2 miles away, with 6,096 people.