Elizabethtown, Kentucky

Elizabethtown population, 2020 to 2024

Elizabethtown added 3,153 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +10.0%. In the latest year it moved by +1,504. Among 79 Kentucky places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 2nd; the median place changed by +2.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Kentucky has 10,541 people, so Elizabethtown is 3.3 times that size.

Elizabethtown covers 28.01 square miles of land and 0.50 of water, for 1,234 people per square mile of land. The median Kentucky place of 5,000+ has 1,588, so Elizabethtown is less dense than the typical town.

What county Elizabethtown is in

All of Elizabethtown's residents live in Hardin County, which had 112,826 residents in 2024. Elizabethtown holds 30.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Elizabethtown

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Elizabethtown by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 42701. 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 Elizabethtown is

The Census internal point of Elizabethtown is at 37.704000, -85.878900. Frankfort, the capital, is 64.1 miles ENE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Louisville/Jefferson County, KY (640,796 people), 34.3 miles away.

Daylight in Elizabethtown

At 37.70° N, Elizabethtown gets about 14 h 47 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 33 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 Elizabethtown

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kentucky, measured between internal points. The closest is Radcliff, 8.6 miles away, with 22,706 people.