Elsmere, Kentucky

Elsmere population, 2020 to 2024

Elsmere added 168 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.8%. In the latest year it moved by +124. Among 79 Kentucky places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 42nd; the median place changed by +2.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Kentucky has 10,541 people, so Elsmere is 89% of it.

Elsmere covers 2.63 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 3,550 people per square mile of land. The median Kentucky place of 5,000+ has 1,588, so Elsmere is denser than the typical town.

What county Elsmere is in

All of Elsmere's residents live in Kenton County, which had 174,862 residents in 2024. Elsmere holds 5.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Elsmere

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Elsmere by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 41018, 41042. 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 Elsmere is

The Census internal point of Elsmere is at 38.993700, -84.601900. Frankfort, the capital, is 57.7 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Florence, KY (33,763 people), 2.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Cincinnati, OH, 11.4 miles away.

Daylight in Elsmere

At 38.99° N, Elsmere 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 Elsmere

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kentucky, measured between internal points. The closest is Edgewood, 2.5 miles away, with 8,526 people.