Cynthiana, Kentucky

Cynthiana population, 2020 to 2024

Cynthiana added 215 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.4%. In the latest year it moved by +27. Among 79 Kentucky places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 31st; the median place changed by +2.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Kentucky has 10,541 people, so Cynthiana is 62% of it.

Cynthiana covers 4.55 square miles of land and 0.05 of water, for 1,441 people per square mile of land. The median Kentucky place of 5,000+ has 1,588, so Cynthiana is close to the typical town.

What county Cynthiana is in

All of Cynthiana's residents live in Harrison County, which had 19,525 residents in 2024. Cynthiana holds 33.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Cynthiana

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Cynthiana by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 41031. 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 Cynthiana is

The Census internal point of Cynthiana is at 38.382900, -84.301800. Frankfort, the capital, is 33.9 miles WSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Paris, KY (10,185 people), 12.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Lexington-Fayette, KY, 25.1 miles away.

Daylight in Cynthiana

At 38.38° N, Cynthiana gets about 14 h 51 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 29 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 21 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Cynthiana

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kentucky, measured between internal points. The closest is Paris, 12.7 miles away, with 10,185 people.