Flatwoods, Kentucky

Flatwoods population, 2020 to 2024

Flatwoods lost 53 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.7%. In the latest year it moved by +16. Among 79 Kentucky places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 65th; the median place changed by +2.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Kentucky has 10,541 people, so Flatwoods is 69% of it.

Flatwoods covers 3.56 square miles of land, for 2,037 people per square mile of land. The median Kentucky place of 5,000+ has 1,588, so Flatwoods is denser than the typical town.

What county Flatwoods is in

All of Flatwoods's residents live in Greenup County, which had 35,273 residents in 2024. Flatwoods holds 20.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Flatwoods

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Flatwoods by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 41139. 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 Flatwoods is

The Census internal point of Flatwoods is at 38.523100, -82.719300. Frankfort, the capital, is 119.1 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Ironton, OH (10,147 people), 2.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Lexington-Fayette, KY, 100.0 miles away.

Daylight in Flatwoods

At 38.52° N, Flatwoods gets about 14 h 52 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 29 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 23 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Flatwoods

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kentucky, measured between internal points. The closest is Russell, 1.4 miles away, with 3,638 people.