Frankfort, Kentucky

Frankfort population, 2020 to 2024

Frankfort lost 2 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.0%. In the latest year it moved by +214. Among 79 Kentucky places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 59th; the median place changed by +2.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Kentucky has 10,541 people, so Frankfort is 2.7 times that size.

Frankfort covers 14.77 square miles of land and 0.30 of water, for 1,937 people per square mile of land. The median Kentucky place of 5,000+ has 1,588, so Frankfort is denser than the typical town.

What county Frankfort is in

All of Frankfort's residents live in Franklin County, which had 52,442 residents in 2024. Frankfort holds 54.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Frankfort

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Frankfort by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 40601. 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 Frankfort is

The Census internal point of Frankfort is at 38.195000, -84.865900. That is next to the Frankfort capitol point. The nearest larger place is Georgetown, KY (40,518 people), 18.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Lexington-Fayette, KY, 24.6 miles away.

Daylight in Frankfort

At 38.20° N, Frankfort gets about 14 h 50 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 30 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 19 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Frankfort

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kentucky, measured between internal points. The closest is Midway, 10.3 miles away, with 1,780 people.