Danville, Kentucky

Danville population, 2020 to 2024

Danville added 240 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.4%. In the latest year it moved by +130. Among 79 Kentucky places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 48th; the median place changed by +2.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Kentucky has 10,541 people, so Danville is 1.7 times that size.

Danville covers 18.10 square miles of land and 0.10 of water, for 970 people per square mile of land. The median Kentucky place of 5,000+ has 1,588, so Danville is less dense than the typical town.

What county Danville is in

All of Danville's residents live in Boyle County, which had 31,394 residents in 2024. Danville holds 55.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Danville

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Danville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 40422. 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 Danville is

The Census internal point of Danville is at 37.639300, -84.776000. Frankfort, the capital, is 38.2 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Nicholasville, KY (33,458 people), 20.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Lexington-Fayette, KY, 32.7 miles away.

Daylight in Danville

At 37.64° N, Danville 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 13 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Danville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kentucky, measured between internal points. The closest is Junction City, 3.8 miles away, with 2,329 people.