Dayton, Kentucky

Dayton population, 2020 to 2024

Dayton added 192 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.4%. In the latest year it moved by +58. Among 79 Kentucky places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 30th; the median place changed by +2.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Kentucky has 10,541 people, so Dayton is 56% of it.

Dayton covers 1.30 square miles of land and 0.63 of water, for 4,503 people per square mile of land. The median Kentucky place of 5,000+ has 1,588, so Dayton is denser than the typical town.

What county Dayton is in

All of Dayton's residents live in Campbell County, which had 94,008 residents in 2024. Dayton holds 6.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Dayton

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Dayton by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 41074. 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 Dayton is

The Census internal point of Dayton is at 39.112300, -84.462800. Frankfort, the capital, is 67.7 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Fort Thomas, KY (16,914 people), 2.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Cincinnati, OH, 3.0 miles away.

Daylight in Dayton

At 39.11° N, Dayton gets about 14 h 55 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 25 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 30 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Dayton

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kentucky, measured between internal points. The closest is Bellevue, 1.1 miles away, with 5,738 people.